What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean? CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER meaning - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER definition - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER explanation.
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In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.
CSPs are independent modules that can be used by different applications. A user program calls CryptoAPI functions and these are redirected to CSPs functions. Since CSPs are responsible for implementing cryptographic algorithms and standards, applications do not need to be concerned about security details. Furthermore, one application can define which CSP it is going to use on its calls to CryptoAPI. In fact, all cryptographic activity is implemented in CSPs. CryptoAPI only works as a bridge between the application and the CSP.
CSPs are implemented basically as a special type of DLL with special restrictions on loading and use. Every CSP must be digitally signed by Microsoft and the signature is verified when Windows loads the CSP. In addition, after being loaded, Windows periodically re-scans the CSP to detect tampering, either by malicious software such as computer viruses or by the user him/herself trying to circumvent restrictions (for example on cryptographic key length) that might be built into the CSP's code.
To obtain a signature, non-Microsoft CSP developers must supply paperwork to Microsoft promising to obey various legal restrictions and giving valid contact information. As of circa 2000, Microsoft did not charge any fees to supply these signatures. For development and testing purposes, a CSP developer can configure Windows to recognize the developer's own signatures instead of Microsoft's, but this is a somewhat complex and obscure operation unsuitable for nontechnical end users.
The CAPI/CSP architecture had its origins in the era of restrictive US government controls on the export of cryptography. Microsoft's default or "base" CSP then included with Windows was limited to 512-bit RSA public-key cryptography and 40-bit symmetric cryptography, the maximum key lengths permitted in exportable mass market software at the time. CSPs implementing stronger cryptography were available only to U.S. residents, unless the CSPs themselves had received U.S. government export approval. The system of requiring CSPs to be signed only on presentation of completed paperwork was intended to prevent the easy spread of unauthorized CSPs implemented by anonymous or foreign developers. As such, it was presented as a concession made by Microsoft to the government, in order to get export approval for the CAPI itself.
After the Bernstein v. United States court decision establishing computer source code as protected free speech and the transfer of cryptographic regulatory authority from the U.S. StateDepartment to the more pro-export Commerce Department, the restrictions on key lengths were dropped, and the CSPs shipped with Windows now include full-strength cryptography. The main use of third-party CSPs is to interface with external cryptography hardware such as hardware security modules (HSM) or smart cards.

Provides four management services: Catalog Database Service, which confirms the signatures of Windows files and allows new programs to be installed; ProtectedRoot Service, which adds and removes Trusted Root Certification Authority certificates from the computer; Automatic Root CertificateUpdate Service, which retrieves root certificates from Windows Update and enable scenarios such as SSL; and Key Service, which helps enroll the computer for certificates. If this service is stopped, these management services will not function properly. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

What is CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION? What does CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION mean? CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION meaning - CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION definition - CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION explanation.
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Client-side encryption is the cryptographic technique of encrypting data on the sender's side, before it is transmitted to a server such as a cloud storage service. Client-side encryption features an encryption key that is not available to the service provider, making it difficult or impossible for service providers to decrypt hosted data. Client-side encryption allows for the creation of zero-knowledge applications whose providers cannot access the data its users have stored, thus offering a high level of privacy.
Client-side encryption is widely recognized as an exceptionally robust data security strategy. By eliminating the potential for data to be viewed by service providers (or third parties that compel service providers to deliver access to data), client-side encryption ensures that data and files that are stored in the cloud can only be viewed on the client side of the exchange. This prevents data loss and the unauthorized disclosure of private or personal files, providing increased peace of mind for both personal and business users.
Current academic scholarship as well as recommendations by industry professionals provide much support for developers to include client-side encryption to protect the confidentiality and integrity of information.
Examples of cloud storage services that provide client-side encryption are Tresorit, MEGA and SpiderOak. As ofFebruary 2016, neither Apple iCloud, Google Drive, or Dropbox provide client-side encryption.

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Certificates are used to prove identity and used for creating secure communication. Check out http://itfreetraining.com for more of our always free training videos. This video looks at how a certificate works, what is a certificate and how they are used for identification and secure communication.
Download the PDF handout
http://itfreetraining.com/Handouts/Certificates/WhatAreCertificates.pdfWhat is a certificate?
A certificate is an electronic document that contains data fields. When compared to a traditional paper certificate there are some similarities between an electronic certificate and a physical certificate. Digital certificates like a physical certificate are issued by an authority. For example, a university may issue a certificate to a student to show that they have completed the necessary work in order to graduate. The next question is, would you trust a physically certificate? Digital certificates work the same way. They are issued from an authority and the question becomes would you trust the authority that issued the certificate? Electronic certificates also contain other fields like who or what the certificate was issued to, how long it is valid, the public key and the digital signature. If a digital certificate is presented to a user or computer, the user or computer is able to check the certificate to ensure the person using it should be using it. Also the certificate contains a digital signature which allows the certificate to be checked to make sure it has not been modified.
Digital Signature
A digital signature provides a method for a certificate to be checked to ensure it has not been modified. In order to do this, a hash value is created for the certificate. To generate a hash value the certificate is put through a function to create a single value. Hash functions are designed so different certificates will not produce the same value, however the hash value cannot be used to generate the original certificate. The same principal applies to a person's fingerprints. They can be used to identify a person, however using a finger print you could not work out the features of a person like what color hair they have. When a certificate is created, the hash value for that certificate is also created. Using a function involving the private key, a digital signature is created and added to the certificate.
Digital Signature Example
When a certificate is used, in order to check the certificate has not been changed, the following is done: The computer generates the hash value for the certificate. Next, the digital signature is put through a function using the public key which should result in the same hash value. If both values match, the certificate has not been modified. This prevents a 3rd party taking a certificate, changing the values in the certificate and using the certificate.
TrustModel
Certificates work off a trust model. An example of a trust model in computers is that a computer may have a sticker on it indicating which operating systems it will run. The consumer, seeing this sticker, must trust that the manufacture would not put this sticker on the laptop unless it will run that operating system. The customer must also trust the creator of that operating system would not allow a computer manufacturer to put a sticker on a computer that would not run that operating system.
Certificate Trust Model
Certificates are generally deployed in a hierarchy. At the top is the root certificate authority. This can be an internal Certificate Authority or an external authority like VeriSign. When an authority like VeriSign issues a certificate, they will perform a number of checks on the individual purchasing the certificate to ensure that they are a valid business. When a certificate is used it can be checked to see which authority issued that certificate. In order for the certificate to be used, the computer must trust the authority that it was issued from. Authorities like VeriSign are trusted by default on most operating systems.
Certificate Error
If a certificate is presented to the computer and it is not trusted, the computer will generate an error asking if the users want to trust the certificate. It is up to the user to decide if they believe the certificate is valid.
Certificate Hierarchy
Certificates use a hierarchy. At the top is the root CA, below these are subordinate CA's. Any level can issue certificates to subordinate CA's or direct to users, computers or devices. If the user, computer or device trusts the root CA, then any certificate that is issued by any CA in the hierarchy will automatically be trusted and thus used by the client.
References
"MCTS 70-640 Configuring Windows Server 2008Active DirectorySecond edition" pg 771-775
"Public key certificate" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_certificate

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Tutanota.com review 5:20
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Secure and private email service - De-googleify yourself!
End-to-end encryption protects your email messages from being stolen by hackers, read by spies, or used by Google or Microsoft for targeted advertising. Encrypted email is essential for protection of your online privacy, security, and digital rights. Mainstream email providers like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, or Hotmail, don't offer you end-to-end encryption because that would jeopardize their business model.
However, your personal email should be completely private and not read by companies to make a profit off of you. Luckily, there are plenty of gmail/yahoo/hotmail alternatives that keep your messages private and secure from prying eyes of advertisers and governments.
Don't expose your private email messages to hackers, cyber criminals, identity thieves, and governments around the world you can’t trust. Sign up with one of these secure and private email providers for an encrypted email.
All of these private email services offer free basic entry for account creation, end-to-end encryption using asymmetric public key cryptography, public cause and activism, anonymous sign-up.
What is end-to-end encryption, public key cryptography and asymmetric encryption?
Asymmetric encryption is the one where users generate two keys to encrypt their data – a private key, and a public key. When someone wants to contact you securely, they use your public key to encrypt the message. To read the message when you receive it, you decrypt it with your private key. Since public keys are available to everyone, you need to make sure nobody tried to spoof your identity using your public key to impersonate you and communicate with your contacts.
Tutanota.com encrypted email service review
utanota is a free and open source email service based in Germany. The name stems from Latin and translates as “secure message”.
Tutanota user experience feels very nice and smooth. Intuitive, logical, nothing new to learn. This is exactly what a privacy email alternative should look like. The basic option is 1 GB of free space that you can devote to your emails and contacts.
Tutatona offers you a premium version.
It’s possible to send encrypted messages via Tutanota’s application to external accounts. You first set up a contact and enter a password that your recipient needs to know before you send an encrypted message. As soon as you hit send, your contact will receive a notification email with a link that will direct them to a secure application of Tutanota, where they can read and reply to your message confidentially, with end-to-end encryption. This allows you to send encrypted messages to any email account, be it gmail, yahoomail, or Protonmail.
Mailfence.com secure and private email review
This is another end-to-end encryption email service but unlike Tutanota, Mailfence supports OpenPGP so that you can manually exchange encryption keys independent from Mailfence servers.
The website’s interface is also simple and clean-looking.
Basic account will give you 200 MB in messages and additional 500 MB for documents. You can upgrade for 5 and 12 GB plan with unlimited calendars and contacts, or get a pro account with 30 GB in messages and 24 in documents for only a little over 8 bucks a month.
Disroot.org protect your privacy review
Disroot is one of the two services on this list that similarly to mailfence, enables you to use third party mail clients via POP or IMAP to store your messages locally. Disroot is an encrypted email service with SSL and TLS to transfer your messages as “envelope” and not a “postcard”.
Protonmail.com Swiss-based encrypted and secure email review
Swiss based encrypted email service developed by scientists from CERN and MIT, Protonmail offers top security and privacy in their end-to-end encrypted webmail application.
Protonmail offers two-factor-authentification, but you can also create separate mailbox password.
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Learn how to control Java’s cryptographic features to protect your application and any data that you manage. This session explains what different cryptography features do, what threats are addressed by each feature, and where the configuration takes place. Topics include certificates, code signatures, authenticating dynamic JVM languages, TLS control, perfect forward security, and transparent JPA encryption.
Author:
Erik Costlow
Erik Costlow is a product manager in Oracle's Java PlatformGroup and a regular contributor to the Java Platform Group PM blog. Erik also works closely with industry on Oracle's Java RootCertificateProgram to ensure highest program quality. Previously Erik was employed at HP where he influenced design of the Fortify security analysis suite used by software developers across the world.
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IT professionals sometimes differentiate between service providers by categorizing them as type I, II, or III.
The three service types are recognized by the IT industry although specifically defined by ITIL and the US Telecommunications Act of 1996

Type I: internal service provider

Type II: shared service provider

Type III: external service provider

Type III SPs provide IT services to external customers and subsequently can be referred to as external service providers (ESPs) which range from a full IT organization/service outsource via managed services or MSPs (managed service providers) to limited product feature delivery via ASPs (application service providers).

Cryptographic Service Provider

In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.

CSPs are independent modules that can be used by different applications. A user program calls CryptoAPI functions and these are redirected to CSPs functions. Since CSPs are responsible for implementing cryptographic algorithms and standards, applications do not need to be concerned about security details. Furthermore, one application can define which CSP it is going to use on its calls to CryptoAPI. In fact, all cryptographic activity is implemented in CSPs. CryptoAPI only works as a bridge between the application and the CSP.

CSPs are implemented basically as a special type of DLL with special restrictions on loading and use. Every CSP must be digitally signed by Microsoft and the signature is verified when Windows loads the CSP. In addition, after being loaded, Windows periodically re-scans the CSP to detect tampering, either by malicious software such as computer viruses or by the user him/herself trying to circumvent restrictions (for example on cryptographic key length) that might be built into the CSP's code.

Cicada 3301

Cicada 3301 is a name given to an enigmatic organization that on four occasions has posted a set of complex puzzles and alternate reality games to recruit "highly intelligent individuals" from the public. The first internet puzzle started on January 4, 2012, and ran for approximately one month. A second round began one year later on January 4, 2013, and a third round is ongoing following confirmation of a fresh clue posted on Twitter on January 4, 2014. The stated intent was to recruit "intelligent individuals" by presenting a series of puzzles which were to be solved, each in order, to find the next. No new puzzles were published on January 4, 2015. However, a new puzzle was posted on Twitter on January 5, 2016. The puzzles focused heavily on data security, cryptography, and steganography.

It has been called "the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet age" and is listed as one of the "top 5 eeriest, unsolved mysteries of the internet" by The Washington Post, and much speculation exists as to its purpose. Many have speculated that it is a recruitment tool for the NSA, CIA, MI6, or a cyber mercenary group. Others have claimed it is an alternate reality game, but the fact that no company or individual has taken credit or tried to monetize it, combined with the fact that none who have solved the puzzles have ever come forward, has led most to feel that it is not. Others have claimed it is run by a bank working on cryptocurrency.

Client-side encryption

Client-side encryption is the cryptographic technique of encrypting data before it is transmitted to a server in a computer network. Usually, encryption is performed with a key that is not known to the server. Consequently, the service provider is unable to decrypt the hosted data. In order to access the data, it must always be decrypted by the client. Client-side encryption allows for the creation of zero-knowledge applications whose providers cannot access the data its users have stored, thus offering a high level of privacy.

See also

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean?

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean?

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean?

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean? CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER meaning - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER definition - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER explanation.
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In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.
CSPs are independent modules that can be used by different applications. A user program calls CryptoAPI functions and these are redirected to CSPs functions. Since CSPs are responsible for implementing cryptographic algorithms and standards, applications do not need to be concerned about security details. Furthermore, one application can define which CSP it is going to use on its calls to CryptoAPI. In fact, all cryptographic activity is implemented in CSPs. CryptoAPI only works as a bridge between the application and the CSP.
CSPs are implemented basically as a special type of DLL with special restrictions on loading and use. Every CSP must be digitally signed by Microsoft and the signature is verified when Windows loads the CSP. In addition, after being loaded, Windows periodically re-scans the CSP to detect tampering, either by malicious software such as computer viruses or by the user him/herself trying to circumvent restrictions (for example on cryptographic key length) that might be built into the CSP's code.
To obtain a signature, non-Microsoft CSP developers must supply paperwork to Microsoft promising to obey various legal restrictions and giving valid contact information. As of circa 2000, Microsoft did not charge any fees to supply these signatures. For development and testing purposes, a CSP developer can configure Windows to recognize the developer's own signatures instead of Microsoft's, but this is a somewhat complex and obscure operation unsuitable for nontechnical end users.
The CAPI/CSP architecture had its origins in the era of restrictive US government controls on the export of cryptography. Microsoft's default or "base" CSP then included with Windows was limited to 512-bit RSA public-key cryptography and 40-bit symmetric cryptography, the maximum key lengths permitted in exportable mass market software at the time. CSPs implementing stronger cryptography were available only to U.S. residents, unless the CSPs themselves had received U.S. government export approval. The system of requiring CSPs to be signed only on presentation of completed paperwork was intended to prevent the easy spread of unauthorized CSPs implemented by anonymous or foreign developers. As such, it was presented as a concession made by Microsoft to the government, in order to get export approval for the CAPI itself.
After the Bernstein v. United States court decision establishing computer source code as protected free speech and the transfer of cryptographic regulatory authority from the U.S. StateDepartment to the more pro-export Commerce Department, the restrictions on key lengths were dropped, and the CSPs shipped with Windows now include full-strength cryptography. The main use of third-party CSPs is to interface with external cryptography hardware such as hardware security modules (HSM) or smart cards.

The Cryptographic Service in Windows 7

Provides four management services: Catalog Database Service, which confirms the signatures of Windows files and allows new programs to be installed; ProtectedRoot Service, which adds and removes Trusted Root Certification Authority certificates from the computer; Automatic Root CertificateUpdate Service, which retrieves root certificates from Windows Update and enable scenarios such as SSL; and Key Service, which helps enroll the computer for certificates. If this service is stopped, these management services will not function properly. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

What is CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION? What does CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION mean?

What is CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION? What does CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION mean?

What is CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION? What does CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION mean?

What is CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION? What does CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION mean? CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION meaning - CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION definition - CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION explanation.
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Client-side encryption is the cryptographic technique of encrypting data on the sender's side, before it is transmitted to a server such as a cloud storage service. Client-side encryption features an encryption key that is not available to the service provider, making it difficult or impossible for service providers to decrypt hosted data. Client-side encryption allows for the creation of zero-knowledge applications whose providers cannot access the data its users have stored, thus offering a high level of privacy.
Client-side encryption is widely recognized as an exceptionally robust data security strategy. By eliminating the potential for data to be viewed by service providers (or third parties that compel service providers to deliver access to data), client-side encryption ensures that data and files that are stored in the cloud can only be viewed on the client side of the exchange. This prevents data loss and the unauthorized disclosure of private or personal files, providing increased peace of mind for both personal and business users.
Current academic scholarship as well as recommendations by industry professionals provide much support for developers to include client-side encryption to protect the confidentiality and integrity of information.
Examples of cloud storage services that provide client-side encryption are Tresorit, MEGA and SpiderOak. As ofFebruary 2016, neither Apple iCloud, Google Drive, or Dropbox provide client-side encryption.

15:11

What are certificates?

What are certificates?

What are certificates?

Certificates are used to prove identity and used for creating secure communication. Check out http://itfreetraining.com for more of our always free training videos. This video looks at how a certificate works, what is a certificate and how they are used for identification and secure communication.
Download the PDF handout
http://itfreetraining.com/Handouts/Certificates/WhatAreCertificates.pdfWhat is a certificate?
A certificate is an electronic document that contains data fields. When compared to a traditional paper certificate there are some similarities between an electronic certificate and a physical certificate. Digital certificates like a physical certificate are issued by an authority. For example, a university may issue a certificate to a student to show that they have completed the necessary work in order to graduate. The next question is, would you trust a physically certificate? Digital certificates work the same way. They are issued from an authority and the question becomes would you trust the authority that issued the certificate? Electronic certificates also contain other fields like who or what the certificate was issued to, how long it is valid, the public key and the digital signature. If a digital certificate is presented to a user or computer, the user or computer is able to check the certificate to ensure the person using it should be using it. Also the certificate contains a digital signature which allows the certificate to be checked to make sure it has not been modified.
Digital Signature
A digital signature provides a method for a certificate to be checked to ensure it has not been modified. In order to do this, a hash value is created for the certificate. To generate a hash value the certificate is put through a function to create a single value. Hash functions are designed so different certificates will not produce the same value, however the hash value cannot be used to generate the original certificate. The same principal applies to a person's fingerprints. They can be used to identify a person, however using a finger print you could not work out the features of a person like what color hair they have. When a certificate is created, the hash value for that certificate is also created. Using a function involving the private key, a digital signature is created and added to the certificate.
Digital Signature Example
When a certificate is used, in order to check the certificate has not been changed, the following is done: The computer generates the hash value for the certificate. Next, the digital signature is put through a function using the public key which should result in the same hash value. If both values match, the certificate has not been modified. This prevents a 3rd party taking a certificate, changing the values in the certificate and using the certificate.
TrustModel
Certificates work off a trust model. An example of a trust model in computers is that a computer may have a sticker on it indicating which operating systems it will run. The consumer, seeing this sticker, must trust that the manufacture would not put this sticker on the laptop unless it will run that operating system. The customer must also trust the creator of that operating system would not allow a computer manufacturer to put a sticker on a computer that would not run that operating system.
Certificate Trust Model
Certificates are generally deployed in a hierarchy. At the top is the root certificate authority. This can be an internal Certificate Authority or an external authority like VeriSign. When an authority like VeriSign issues a certificate, they will perform a number of checks on the individual purchasing the certificate to ensure that they are a valid business. When a certificate is used it can be checked to see which authority issued that certificate. In order for the certificate to be used, the computer must trust the authority that it was issued from. Authorities like VeriSign are trusted by default on most operating systems.
Certificate Error
If a certificate is presented to the computer and it is not trusted, the computer will generate an error asking if the users want to trust the certificate. It is up to the user to decide if they believe the certificate is valid.
Certificate Hierarchy
Certificates use a hierarchy. At the top is the root CA, below these are subordinate CA's. Any level can issue certificates to subordinate CA's or direct to users, computers or devices. If the user, computer or device trusts the root CA, then any certificate that is issued by any CA in the hierarchy will automatically be trusted and thus used by the client.
References
"MCTS 70-640 Configuring Windows Server 2008Active DirectorySecond edition" pg 771-775
"Public key certificate" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_certificate

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Ethereum
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Tutanota.com review 5:20
Mailfence.com review 8:20
Disroot.org review 10:42
Protonmail.com review 12:54
Secure and private email service - De-googleify yourself!
End-to-end encryption protects your email messages from being stolen by hackers, read by spies, or used by Google or Microsoft for targeted advertising. Encrypted email is essential for protection of your online privacy, security, and digital rights. Mainstream email providers like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, or Hotmail, don't offer you end-to-end encryption because that would jeopardize their business model.
However, your personal email should be completely private and not read by companies to make a profit off of you. Luckily, there are plenty of gmail/yahoo/hotmail alternatives that keep your messages private and secure from prying eyes of advertisers and governments.
Don't expose your private email messages to hackers, cyber criminals, identity thieves, and governments around the world you can’t trust. Sign up with one of these secure and private email providers for an encrypted email.
All of these private email services offer free basic entry for account creation, end-to-end encryption using asymmetric public key cryptography, public cause and activism, anonymous sign-up.
What is end-to-end encryption, public key cryptography and asymmetric encryption?
Asymmetric encryption is the one where users generate two keys to encrypt their data – a private key, and a public key. When someone wants to contact you securely, they use your public key to encrypt the message. To read the message when you receive it, you decrypt it with your private key. Since public keys are available to everyone, you need to make sure nobody tried to spoof your identity using your public key to impersonate you and communicate with your contacts.
Tutanota.com encrypted email service review
utanota is a free and open source email service based in Germany. The name stems from Latin and translates as “secure message”.
Tutanota user experience feels very nice and smooth. Intuitive, logical, nothing new to learn. This is exactly what a privacy email alternative should look like. The basic option is 1 GB of free space that you can devote to your emails and contacts.
Tutatona offers you a premium version.
It’s possible to send encrypted messages via Tutanota’s application to external accounts. You first set up a contact and enter a password that your recipient needs to know before you send an encrypted message. As soon as you hit send, your contact will receive a notification email with a link that will direct them to a secure application of Tutanota, where they can read and reply to your message confidentially, with end-to-end encryption. This allows you to send encrypted messages to any email account, be it gmail, yahoomail, or Protonmail.
Mailfence.com secure and private email review
This is another end-to-end encryption email service but unlike Tutanota, Mailfence supports OpenPGP so that you can manually exchange encryption keys independent from Mailfence servers.
The website’s interface is also simple and clean-looking.
Basic account will give you 200 MB in messages and additional 500 MB for documents. You can upgrade for 5 and 12 GB plan with unlimited calendars and contacts, or get a pro account with 30 GB in messages and 24 in documents for only a little over 8 bucks a month.
Disroot.org protect your privacy review
Disroot is one of the two services on this list that similarly to mailfence, enables you to use third party mail clients via POP or IMAP to store your messages locally. Disroot is an encrypted email service with SSL and TLS to transfer your messages as “envelope” and not a “postcard”.
Protonmail.com Swiss-based encrypted and secure email review
Swiss based encrypted email service developed by scientists from CERN and MIT, Protonmail offers top security and privacy in their end-to-end encrypted webmail application.
Protonmail offers two-factor-authentification, but you can also create separate mailbox password.
Credits:
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Learn how to control Java’s cryptographic features to protect your application and any data that you manage. This session explains what different cryptography features do, what threats are addressed by each feature, and where the configuration takes place. Topics include certificates, code signatures, authenticating dynamic JVM languages, TLS control, perfect forward security, and transparent JPA encryption.
Author:
Erik Costlow
Erik Costlow is a product manager in Oracle's Java PlatformGroup and a regular contributor to the Java Platform Group PM blog. Erik also works closely with industry on Oracle's Java RootCertificateProgram to ensure highest program quality. Previously Erik was employed at HP where he influenced design of the Fortify security analysis suite used by software developers across the world.
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Imagine an Internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to destination against espionage and forgery, getting an IP address is as simple as generating a cryptographic key, core routers move data without a single memory look up, and denial of service is a term read about in history books. Finally, becoming an ISP is no longer confined to the mighty telecoms, anyone can do it by running some wires or turning on a wireless device. This is the vision of cjdns. https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/

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HSM 101: What is a Hardware Security Module?

What is a hardware security module?
A hardware security module is a dedicated crypto processor, designed to protect the crypto key lifecycle, validated for security by third parties (FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria, PCIHSM, FIPS 201).
A hardware security module is a trust anchor. A trust anchor that protects the things we use every day. Things like SSL, DNS, banking and websites. Mobile devices. Smart meters. Medical devices. National identity cards. Credit card data and PINs. Mobile payments and verbal banking. Digital documents. Passports.
And so much more. Hardware security modules typically are appliances or cards. Appliances or cards that ensure compliance. Simplify audits. Improve performance. Securely generate and store keys.
Hardware security modules are trusted by the most security-conscious companies, agencies, banks, and service providers in the world.
Hardware security modules: trust anchors in a digital world.

If your organization is a service provider, PCI Requirement 3.5.1 applies to you. PCI Requirement 3.5.1 requires that your organization, “Maintain a documented description of the cryptographic architecture that includes: details of all algorithms, protocols, and keys used for the protection of cardholder data, including key strength and expiry date, a description of the key usage for each key, and an inventory of any HSMs and other SCDs used for key management.”
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If your organization is a service provider, Requirement 3.5.1 has an additional set of documented procedures for you. This really requires that you do a little bit of extra diligence around documenting the keys that you use, documenting if you’re using an HSM, documenting what those might look like, who you might share keys with – there’s a great deal of information that you’re asked to keep in addition to just the normal documentation.
So, have a look at Requirement 3.5.1, specific to you as service provider. If you have any questions, spend some time with your assessor or QSA. I’m sure they’ll be happy to work you with you to identify what complying with this requirement might look like.
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What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean?

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean? CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER meaning - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER definition - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER explanation.
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In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.
CSPs are independent modules that can be used by different applications. A ...

published: 31 Dec 2017

Windows 10 : How to Start or Stop Cryptographic services

The Cryptographic Service in Windows 7

Provides four management services: Catalog Database Service, which confirms the signatures of Windows files and allows new programs to be installed; ProtectedRoot Service, which adds and removes Trusted Root Certification Authority certificates from the computer; Automatic Root CertificateUpdate Service, which retrieves root certificates from Windows Update and enable scenarios such as SSL; and Key Service, which helps enroll the computer for certificates. If this service is stopped, these management services will not function properly. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

What is CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION? What does CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION mean?

What is CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION? What does CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION mean? CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION meaning - CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION definition - CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION explanation.
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Client-side encryption is the cryptographic technique of encrypting data on the sender's side, before it is transmitted to a server such as a cloud storage service. Client-side encryption features an encryption key that is not available to the service provider, making it difficult or impossible for service providers to decrypt hosted data. Client-side encryption allows for the creation of zero-knowledge applic...

published: 25 Jun 2017

What are certificates?

Certificates are used to prove identity and used for creating secure communication. Check out http://itfreetraining.com for more of our always free training videos. This video looks at how a certificate works, what is a certificate and how they are used for identification and secure communication.
Download the PDF handout
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A certificate is an electronic document that contains data fields. When compared to a traditional paper certificate there are some similarities between an electronic certificate and a physical certificate. Digital certificates like a physical certificate are issued by an authority. For example, a university may issue a certificate to a student to show that they have completed ...

Applying Java’s Cryptography

Learn how to control Java’s cryptographic features to protect your application and any data that you manage. This session explains what different cryptography features do, what threats are addressed by each feature, and where the configuration takes place. Topics include certificates, code signatures, authenticating dynamic JVM languages, TLS control, perfect forward security, and transparent JPA encryption.
Author:
Erik Costlow
Erik Costlow is a product manager in Oracle's Java PlatformGroup and a regular contributor to the Java Platform Group PM blog. Erik also works closely with industry on Oracle's Java RootCertificateProgram to ensure highest program quality. Previously Erik was employed at HP where he influenced design of the Fortify security analysis suite used by software deve...

cjdns - The modular isp, the internet of the future ?

Imagine an Internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to destination against espionage and forgery, getting an IP address is as simple as generating a cryptographic key, core routers move data without a single memory look up, and denial of service is a term read about in history books. Finally, becoming an ISP is no longer confined to the mighty telecoms, anyone can do it by running some wires or turning on a wireless device. This is the vision of cjdns. https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/

If your organization is a service provider, PCI Requirement 3.5.1 applies to you. PCI Requirement 3.5.1 requires that your organization, “Maintain a documented description of the cryptographic architecture that includes: details of all algorithms, protocols, and keys used for the protection of cardholder data, including key strength and expiry date, a description of the key usage for each key, and an inventory of any HSMs and other SCDs used for key management.”
If you store, process, or transmit cardholder data, interact with payment card data in any way, or have the ability to impact someone else’s cardholder information or the security of that information, you are subject to comply with the PCI DSS. This exclusive video series, PCI Demystified, was developed to assist your organization...

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Password Cryptography - Hash & Salt

The project aims at developing a healthcare industry application that enables running a service to individuals to maintain their health records electronically at a secure centralized storage system using cloud computing technologies and granting remote access with appropriate authentication. The application bridges the huge gap that exists between the healthcare industry and other industries in adopting the cloud computing technologies

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean?

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean? CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER meaning - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER d...

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean? CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER meaning - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER definition - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER explanation.
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In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.
CSPs are independent modules that can be used by different applications. A user program calls CryptoAPI functions and these are redirected to CSPs functions. Since CSPs are responsible for implementing cryptographic algorithms and standards, applications do not need to be concerned about security details. Furthermore, one application can define which CSP it is going to use on its calls to CryptoAPI. In fact, all cryptographic activity is implemented in CSPs. CryptoAPI only works as a bridge between the application and the CSP.
CSPs are implemented basically as a special type of DLL with special restrictions on loading and use. Every CSP must be digitally signed by Microsoft and the signature is verified when Windows loads the CSP. In addition, after being loaded, Windows periodically re-scans the CSP to detect tampering, either by malicious software such as computer viruses or by the user him/herself trying to circumvent restrictions (for example on cryptographic key length) that might be built into the CSP's code.
To obtain a signature, non-Microsoft CSP developers must supply paperwork to Microsoft promising to obey various legal restrictions and giving valid contact information. As of circa 2000, Microsoft did not charge any fees to supply these signatures. For development and testing purposes, a CSP developer can configure Windows to recognize the developer's own signatures instead of Microsoft's, but this is a somewhat complex and obscure operation unsuitable for nontechnical end users.
The CAPI/CSP architecture had its origins in the era of restrictive US government controls on the export of cryptography. Microsoft's default or "base" CSP then included with Windows was limited to 512-bit RSA public-key cryptography and 40-bit symmetric cryptography, the maximum key lengths permitted in exportable mass market software at the time. CSPs implementing stronger cryptography were available only to U.S. residents, unless the CSPs themselves had received U.S. government export approval. The system of requiring CSPs to be signed only on presentation of completed paperwork was intended to prevent the easy spread of unauthorized CSPs implemented by anonymous or foreign developers. As such, it was presented as a concession made by Microsoft to the government, in order to get export approval for the CAPI itself.
After the Bernstein v. United States court decision establishing computer source code as protected free speech and the transfer of cryptographic regulatory authority from the U.S. StateDepartment to the more pro-export Commerce Department, the restrictions on key lengths were dropped, and the CSPs shipped with Windows now include full-strength cryptography. The main use of third-party CSPs is to interface with external cryptography hardware such as hardware security modules (HSM) or smart cards.

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In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.
CSPs are independent modules that can be used by different applications. A user program calls CryptoAPI functions and these are redirected to CSPs functions. Since CSPs are responsible for implementing cryptographic algorithms and standards, applications do not need to be concerned about security details. Furthermore, one application can define which CSP it is going to use on its calls to CryptoAPI. In fact, all cryptographic activity is implemented in CSPs. CryptoAPI only works as a bridge between the application and the CSP.
CSPs are implemented basically as a special type of DLL with special restrictions on loading and use. Every CSP must be digitally signed by Microsoft and the signature is verified when Windows loads the CSP. In addition, after being loaded, Windows periodically re-scans the CSP to detect tampering, either by malicious software such as computer viruses or by the user him/herself trying to circumvent restrictions (for example on cryptographic key length) that might be built into the CSP's code.
To obtain a signature, non-Microsoft CSP developers must supply paperwork to Microsoft promising to obey various legal restrictions and giving valid contact information. As of circa 2000, Microsoft did not charge any fees to supply these signatures. For development and testing purposes, a CSP developer can configure Windows to recognize the developer's own signatures instead of Microsoft's, but this is a somewhat complex and obscure operation unsuitable for nontechnical end users.
The CAPI/CSP architecture had its origins in the era of restrictive US government controls on the export of cryptography. Microsoft's default or "base" CSP then included with Windows was limited to 512-bit RSA public-key cryptography and 40-bit symmetric cryptography, the maximum key lengths permitted in exportable mass market software at the time. CSPs implementing stronger cryptography were available only to U.S. residents, unless the CSPs themselves had received U.S. government export approval. The system of requiring CSPs to be signed only on presentation of completed paperwork was intended to prevent the easy spread of unauthorized CSPs implemented by anonymous or foreign developers. As such, it was presented as a concession made by Microsoft to the government, in order to get export approval for the CAPI itself.
After the Bernstein v. United States court decision establishing computer source code as protected free speech and the transfer of cryptographic regulatory authority from the U.S. StateDepartment to the more pro-export Commerce Department, the restrictions on key lengths were dropped, and the CSPs shipped with Windows now include full-strength cryptography. The main use of third-party CSPs is to interface with external cryptography hardware such as hardware security modules (HSM) or smart cards.

Provides four management services: Catalog Database Service, which confirms the signatures of Windows files and allows new programs to be installed; ProtectedRoot Service, which adds and removes Trusted Root Certification Authority certificates from the computer; Automatic Root CertificateUpdate Service, which retrieves root certificates from Windows Update and enable scenarios such as SSL; and Key Service, which helps enroll the computer for certificates. If this service is stopped, these management services will not function properly. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

Provides four management services: Catalog Database Service, which confirms the signatures of Windows files and allows new programs to be installed; ProtectedRoot Service, which adds and removes Trusted Root Certification Authority certificates from the computer; Automatic Root CertificateUpdate Service, which retrieves root certificates from Windows Update and enable scenarios such as SSL; and Key Service, which helps enroll the computer for certificates. If this service is stopped, these management services will not function properly. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

What is CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION? What does CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION mean? CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION meaning - CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION definition - CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION explanation.
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Client-side encryption is the cryptographic technique of encrypting data on the sender's side, before it is transmitted to a server such as a cloud storage service. Client-side encryption features an encryption key that is not available to the service provider, making it difficult or impossible for service providers to decrypt hosted data. Client-side encryption allows for the creation of zero-knowledge applications whose providers cannot access the data its users have stored, thus offering a high level of privacy.
Client-side encryption is widely recognized as an exceptionally robust data security strategy. By eliminating the potential for data to be viewed by service providers (or third parties that compel service providers to deliver access to data), client-side encryption ensures that data and files that are stored in the cloud can only be viewed on the client side of the exchange. This prevents data loss and the unauthorized disclosure of private or personal files, providing increased peace of mind for both personal and business users.
Current academic scholarship as well as recommendations by industry professionals provide much support for developers to include client-side encryption to protect the confidentiality and integrity of information.
Examples of cloud storage services that provide client-side encryption are Tresorit, MEGA and SpiderOak. As ofFebruary 2016, neither Apple iCloud, Google Drive, or Dropbox provide client-side encryption.

What is CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION? What does CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION mean? CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION meaning - CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION definition - CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION explanation.
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Client-side encryption is the cryptographic technique of encrypting data on the sender's side, before it is transmitted to a server such as a cloud storage service. Client-side encryption features an encryption key that is not available to the service provider, making it difficult or impossible for service providers to decrypt hosted data. Client-side encryption allows for the creation of zero-knowledge applications whose providers cannot access the data its users have stored, thus offering a high level of privacy.
Client-side encryption is widely recognized as an exceptionally robust data security strategy. By eliminating the potential for data to be viewed by service providers (or third parties that compel service providers to deliver access to data), client-side encryption ensures that data and files that are stored in the cloud can only be viewed on the client side of the exchange. This prevents data loss and the unauthorized disclosure of private or personal files, providing increased peace of mind for both personal and business users.
Current academic scholarship as well as recommendations by industry professionals provide much support for developers to include client-side encryption to protect the confidentiality and integrity of information.
Examples of cloud storage services that provide client-side encryption are Tresorit, MEGA and SpiderOak. As ofFebruary 2016, neither Apple iCloud, Google Drive, or Dropbox provide client-side encryption.

What are certificates?

Certificates are used to prove identity and used for creating secure communication. Check out http://itfreetraining.com for more of our always free training vid...

Certificates are used to prove identity and used for creating secure communication. Check out http://itfreetraining.com for more of our always free training videos. This video looks at how a certificate works, what is a certificate and how they are used for identification and secure communication.
Download the PDF handout
http://itfreetraining.com/Handouts/Certificates/WhatAreCertificates.pdfWhat is a certificate?
A certificate is an electronic document that contains data fields. When compared to a traditional paper certificate there are some similarities between an electronic certificate and a physical certificate. Digital certificates like a physical certificate are issued by an authority. For example, a university may issue a certificate to a student to show that they have completed the necessary work in order to graduate. The next question is, would you trust a physically certificate? Digital certificates work the same way. They are issued from an authority and the question becomes would you trust the authority that issued the certificate? Electronic certificates also contain other fields like who or what the certificate was issued to, how long it is valid, the public key and the digital signature. If a digital certificate is presented to a user or computer, the user or computer is able to check the certificate to ensure the person using it should be using it. Also the certificate contains a digital signature which allows the certificate to be checked to make sure it has not been modified.
Digital Signature
A digital signature provides a method for a certificate to be checked to ensure it has not been modified. In order to do this, a hash value is created for the certificate. To generate a hash value the certificate is put through a function to create a single value. Hash functions are designed so different certificates will not produce the same value, however the hash value cannot be used to generate the original certificate. The same principal applies to a person's fingerprints. They can be used to identify a person, however using a finger print you could not work out the features of a person like what color hair they have. When a certificate is created, the hash value for that certificate is also created. Using a function involving the private key, a digital signature is created and added to the certificate.
Digital Signature Example
When a certificate is used, in order to check the certificate has not been changed, the following is done: The computer generates the hash value for the certificate. Next, the digital signature is put through a function using the public key which should result in the same hash value. If both values match, the certificate has not been modified. This prevents a 3rd party taking a certificate, changing the values in the certificate and using the certificate.
TrustModel
Certificates work off a trust model. An example of a trust model in computers is that a computer may have a sticker on it indicating which operating systems it will run. The consumer, seeing this sticker, must trust that the manufacture would not put this sticker on the laptop unless it will run that operating system. The customer must also trust the creator of that operating system would not allow a computer manufacturer to put a sticker on a computer that would not run that operating system.
Certificate Trust Model
Certificates are generally deployed in a hierarchy. At the top is the root certificate authority. This can be an internal Certificate Authority or an external authority like VeriSign. When an authority like VeriSign issues a certificate, they will perform a number of checks on the individual purchasing the certificate to ensure that they are a valid business. When a certificate is used it can be checked to see which authority issued that certificate. In order for the certificate to be used, the computer must trust the authority that it was issued from. Authorities like VeriSign are trusted by default on most operating systems.
Certificate Error
If a certificate is presented to the computer and it is not trusted, the computer will generate an error asking if the users want to trust the certificate. It is up to the user to decide if they believe the certificate is valid.
Certificate Hierarchy
Certificates use a hierarchy. At the top is the root CA, below these are subordinate CA's. Any level can issue certificates to subordinate CA's or direct to users, computers or devices. If the user, computer or device trusts the root CA, then any certificate that is issued by any CA in the hierarchy will automatically be trusted and thus used by the client.
References
"MCTS 70-640 Configuring Windows Server 2008Active DirectorySecond edition" pg 771-775
"Public key certificate" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_certificate

Certificates are used to prove identity and used for creating secure communication. Check out http://itfreetraining.com for more of our always free training videos. This video looks at how a certificate works, what is a certificate and how they are used for identification and secure communication.
Download the PDF handout
http://itfreetraining.com/Handouts/Certificates/WhatAreCertificates.pdfWhat is a certificate?
A certificate is an electronic document that contains data fields. When compared to a traditional paper certificate there are some similarities between an electronic certificate and a physical certificate. Digital certificates like a physical certificate are issued by an authority. For example, a university may issue a certificate to a student to show that they have completed the necessary work in order to graduate. The next question is, would you trust a physically certificate? Digital certificates work the same way. They are issued from an authority and the question becomes would you trust the authority that issued the certificate? Electronic certificates also contain other fields like who or what the certificate was issued to, how long it is valid, the public key and the digital signature. If a digital certificate is presented to a user or computer, the user or computer is able to check the certificate to ensure the person using it should be using it. Also the certificate contains a digital signature which allows the certificate to be checked to make sure it has not been modified.
Digital Signature
A digital signature provides a method for a certificate to be checked to ensure it has not been modified. In order to do this, a hash value is created for the certificate. To generate a hash value the certificate is put through a function to create a single value. Hash functions are designed so different certificates will not produce the same value, however the hash value cannot be used to generate the original certificate. The same principal applies to a person's fingerprints. They can be used to identify a person, however using a finger print you could not work out the features of a person like what color hair they have. When a certificate is created, the hash value for that certificate is also created. Using a function involving the private key, a digital signature is created and added to the certificate.
Digital Signature Example
When a certificate is used, in order to check the certificate has not been changed, the following is done: The computer generates the hash value for the certificate. Next, the digital signature is put through a function using the public key which should result in the same hash value. If both values match, the certificate has not been modified. This prevents a 3rd party taking a certificate, changing the values in the certificate and using the certificate.
TrustModel
Certificates work off a trust model. An example of a trust model in computers is that a computer may have a sticker on it indicating which operating systems it will run. The consumer, seeing this sticker, must trust that the manufacture would not put this sticker on the laptop unless it will run that operating system. The customer must also trust the creator of that operating system would not allow a computer manufacturer to put a sticker on a computer that would not run that operating system.
Certificate Trust Model
Certificates are generally deployed in a hierarchy. At the top is the root certificate authority. This can be an internal Certificate Authority or an external authority like VeriSign. When an authority like VeriSign issues a certificate, they will perform a number of checks on the individual purchasing the certificate to ensure that they are a valid business. When a certificate is used it can be checked to see which authority issued that certificate. In order for the certificate to be used, the computer must trust the authority that it was issued from. Authorities like VeriSign are trusted by default on most operating systems.
Certificate Error
If a certificate is presented to the computer and it is not trusted, the computer will generate an error asking if the users want to trust the certificate. It is up to the user to decide if they believe the certificate is valid.
Certificate Hierarchy
Certificates use a hierarchy. At the top is the root CA, below these are subordinate CA's. Any level can issue certificates to subordinate CA's or direct to users, computers or devices. If the user, computer or device trusts the root CA, then any certificate that is issued by any CA in the hierarchy will automatically be trusted and thus used by the client.
References
"MCTS 70-640 Configuring Windows Server 2008Active DirectorySecond edition" pg 771-775
"Public key certificate" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_certificate

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End-to-end encryption protects your email messages from being stolen by hackers, read by spies, or used by Google or Microsoft for targeted advertising. Encrypted email is essential for protection of your online privacy, security, and digital rights. Mainstream email providers like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, or Hotmail, don't offer you end-to-end encryption because that would jeopardize their business model.
However, your personal email should be completely private and not read by companies to make a profit off of you. Luckily, there are plenty of gmail/yahoo/hotmail alternatives that keep your messages private and secure from prying eyes of advertisers and governments.
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What is end-to-end encryption, public key cryptography and asymmetric encryption?
Asymmetric encryption is the one where users generate two keys to encrypt their data – a private key, and a public key. When someone wants to contact you securely, they use your public key to encrypt the message. To read the message when you receive it, you decrypt it with your private key. Since public keys are available to everyone, you need to make sure nobody tried to spoof your identity using your public key to impersonate you and communicate with your contacts.
Tutanota.com encrypted email service review
utanota is a free and open source email service based in Germany. The name stems from Latin and translates as “secure message”.
Tutanota user experience feels very nice and smooth. Intuitive, logical, nothing new to learn. This is exactly what a privacy email alternative should look like. The basic option is 1 GB of free space that you can devote to your emails and contacts.
Tutatona offers you a premium version.
It’s possible to send encrypted messages via Tutanota’s application to external accounts. You first set up a contact and enter a password that your recipient needs to know before you send an encrypted message. As soon as you hit send, your contact will receive a notification email with a link that will direct them to a secure application of Tutanota, where they can read and reply to your message confidentially, with end-to-end encryption. This allows you to send encrypted messages to any email account, be it gmail, yahoomail, or Protonmail.
Mailfence.com secure and private email review
This is another end-to-end encryption email service but unlike Tutanota, Mailfence supports OpenPGP so that you can manually exchange encryption keys independent from Mailfence servers.
The website’s interface is also simple and clean-looking.
Basic account will give you 200 MB in messages and additional 500 MB for documents. You can upgrade for 5 and 12 GB plan with unlimited calendars and contacts, or get a pro account with 30 GB in messages and 24 in documents for only a little over 8 bucks a month.
Disroot.org protect your privacy review
Disroot is one of the two services on this list that similarly to mailfence, enables you to use third party mail clients via POP or IMAP to store your messages locally. Disroot is an encrypted email service with SSL and TLS to transfer your messages as “envelope” and not a “postcard”.
Protonmail.com Swiss-based encrypted and secure email review
Swiss based encrypted email service developed by scientists from CERN and MIT, Protonmail offers top security and privacy in their end-to-end encrypted webmail application.
Protonmail offers two-factor-authentification, but you can also create separate mailbox password.
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Secure and private email service - De-googleify yourself!
End-to-end encryption protects your email messages from being stolen by hackers, read by spies, or used by Google or Microsoft for targeted advertising. Encrypted email is essential for protection of your online privacy, security, and digital rights. Mainstream email providers like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, or Hotmail, don't offer you end-to-end encryption because that would jeopardize their business model.
However, your personal email should be completely private and not read by companies to make a profit off of you. Luckily, there are plenty of gmail/yahoo/hotmail alternatives that keep your messages private and secure from prying eyes of advertisers and governments.
Don't expose your private email messages to hackers, cyber criminals, identity thieves, and governments around the world you can’t trust. Sign up with one of these secure and private email providers for an encrypted email.
All of these private email services offer free basic entry for account creation, end-to-end encryption using asymmetric public key cryptography, public cause and activism, anonymous sign-up.
What is end-to-end encryption, public key cryptography and asymmetric encryption?
Asymmetric encryption is the one where users generate two keys to encrypt their data – a private key, and a public key. When someone wants to contact you securely, they use your public key to encrypt the message. To read the message when you receive it, you decrypt it with your private key. Since public keys are available to everyone, you need to make sure nobody tried to spoof your identity using your public key to impersonate you and communicate with your contacts.
Tutanota.com encrypted email service review
utanota is a free and open source email service based in Germany. The name stems from Latin and translates as “secure message”.
Tutanota user experience feels very nice and smooth. Intuitive, logical, nothing new to learn. This is exactly what a privacy email alternative should look like. The basic option is 1 GB of free space that you can devote to your emails and contacts.
Tutatona offers you a premium version.
It’s possible to send encrypted messages via Tutanota’s application to external accounts. You first set up a contact and enter a password that your recipient needs to know before you send an encrypted message. As soon as you hit send, your contact will receive a notification email with a link that will direct them to a secure application of Tutanota, where they can read and reply to your message confidentially, with end-to-end encryption. This allows you to send encrypted messages to any email account, be it gmail, yahoomail, or Protonmail.
Mailfence.com secure and private email review
This is another end-to-end encryption email service but unlike Tutanota, Mailfence supports OpenPGP so that you can manually exchange encryption keys independent from Mailfence servers.
The website’s interface is also simple and clean-looking.
Basic account will give you 200 MB in messages and additional 500 MB for documents. You can upgrade for 5 and 12 GB plan with unlimited calendars and contacts, or get a pro account with 30 GB in messages and 24 in documents for only a little over 8 bucks a month.
Disroot.org protect your privacy review
Disroot is one of the two services on this list that similarly to mailfence, enables you to use third party mail clients via POP or IMAP to store your messages locally. Disroot is an encrypted email service with SSL and TLS to transfer your messages as “envelope” and not a “postcard”.
Protonmail.com Swiss-based encrypted and secure email review
Swiss based encrypted email service developed by scientists from CERN and MIT, Protonmail offers top security and privacy in their end-to-end encrypted webmail application.
Protonmail offers two-factor-authentification, but you can also create separate mailbox password.
Credits:
InstrumentalsReal Chill and Spite, Momentum, FadedNights, Now by https://www.youtube.com/user/CHUKImusic
ChillWave and Shadowlands 4 by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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EFF Flickr images
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Applying Java’s Cryptography

Learn how to control Java’s cryptographic features to protect your application and any data that you manage. This session explains what different cryptography f...

Learn how to control Java’s cryptographic features to protect your application and any data that you manage. This session explains what different cryptography features do, what threats are addressed by each feature, and where the configuration takes place. Topics include certificates, code signatures, authenticating dynamic JVM languages, TLS control, perfect forward security, and transparent JPA encryption.
Author:
Erik Costlow
Erik Costlow is a product manager in Oracle's Java PlatformGroup and a regular contributor to the Java Platform Group PM blog. Erik also works closely with industry on Oracle's Java RootCertificateProgram to ensure highest program quality. Previously Erik was employed at HP where he influenced design of the Fortify security analysis suite used by software developers across the world.
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Learn how to control Java’s cryptographic features to protect your application and any data that you manage. This session explains what different cryptography features do, what threats are addressed by each feature, and where the configuration takes place. Topics include certificates, code signatures, authenticating dynamic JVM languages, TLS control, perfect forward security, and transparent JPA encryption.
Author:
Erik Costlow
Erik Costlow is a product manager in Oracle's Java PlatformGroup and a regular contributor to the Java Platform Group PM blog. Erik also works closely with industry on Oracle's Java RootCertificateProgram to ensure highest program quality. Previously Erik was employed at HP where he influenced design of the Fortify security analysis suite used by software developers across the world.
View more trainings by Erik Costlow at https://www.parleys.com/author/erik-costlow
Find more related tutorials at https://www.parleys.com/category/developer-training-tutorials

cjdns - The modular isp, the internet of the future ?

Imagine an Internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to destination against espionage and forgery, getting an IP address is as simp...

Imagine an Internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to destination against espionage and forgery, getting an IP address is as simple as generating a cryptographic key, core routers move data without a single memory look up, and denial of service is a term read about in history books. Finally, becoming an ISP is no longer confined to the mighty telecoms, anyone can do it by running some wires or turning on a wireless device. This is the vision of cjdns. https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/

Imagine an Internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to destination against espionage and forgery, getting an IP address is as simple as generating a cryptographic key, core routers move data without a single memory look up, and denial of service is a term read about in history books. Finally, becoming an ISP is no longer confined to the mighty telecoms, anyone can do it by running some wires or turning on a wireless device. This is the vision of cjdns. https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/

HSM 101: What is a Hardware Security Module?

What is a hardware security module?
A hardware security module is a dedicated crypto processor, designed to protect the crypto key lifecycle, validated for se...

What is a hardware security module?
A hardware security module is a dedicated crypto processor, designed to protect the crypto key lifecycle, validated for security by third parties (FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria, PCIHSM, FIPS 201).
A hardware security module is a trust anchor. A trust anchor that protects the things we use every day. Things like SSL, DNS, banking and websites. Mobile devices. Smart meters. Medical devices. National identity cards. Credit card data and PINs. Mobile payments and verbal banking. Digital documents. Passports.
And so much more. Hardware security modules typically are appliances or cards. Appliances or cards that ensure compliance. Simplify audits. Improve performance. Securely generate and store keys.
Hardware security modules are trusted by the most security-conscious companies, agencies, banks, and service providers in the world.
Hardware security modules: trust anchors in a digital world.

What is a hardware security module?
A hardware security module is a dedicated crypto processor, designed to protect the crypto key lifecycle, validated for security by third parties (FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria, PCIHSM, FIPS 201).
A hardware security module is a trust anchor. A trust anchor that protects the things we use every day. Things like SSL, DNS, banking and websites. Mobile devices. Smart meters. Medical devices. National identity cards. Credit card data and PINs. Mobile payments and verbal banking. Digital documents. Passports.
And so much more. Hardware security modules typically are appliances or cards. Appliances or cards that ensure compliance. Simplify audits. Improve performance. Securely generate and store keys.
Hardware security modules are trusted by the most security-conscious companies, agencies, banks, and service providers in the world.
Hardware security modules: trust anchors in a digital world.

If your organization is a service provider, PCI Requirement 3.5.1 applies to you. PCI Requirement 3.5.1 requires that your organization, “Maintain a documented description of the cryptographic architecture that includes: details of all algorithms, protocols, and keys used for the protection of cardholder data, including key strength and expiry date, a description of the key usage for each key, and an inventory of any HSMs and other SCDs used for key management.”
If you store, process, or transmit cardholder data, interact with payment card data in any way, or have the ability to impact someone else’s cardholder information or the security of that information, you are subject to comply with the PCI DSS. This exclusive video series, PCI Demystified, was developed to assist your organization in understanding what the Payment Card IndustryDataSecurityStandard (PCI DSS) is, who it applies to, what the specific requirements are, and what your organizations needs to know and do to become compliant.
Learn more at https://kirkpatrickprice.com/video/pci-requirement-3-5-1-maintain-documented-description-cryptographic-architecture/
Video Transcription
If your organization is a service provider, Requirement 3.5.1 has an additional set of documented procedures for you. This really requires that you do a little bit of extra diligence around documenting the keys that you use, documenting if you’re using an HSM, documenting what those might look like, who you might share keys with – there’s a great deal of information that you’re asked to keep in addition to just the normal documentation.
So, have a look at Requirement 3.5.1, specific to you as service provider. If you have any questions, spend some time with your assessor or QSA. I’m sure they’ll be happy to work you with you to identify what complying with this requirement might look like.
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If your organization is a service provider, PCI Requirement 3.5.1 applies to you. PCI Requirement 3.5.1 requires that your organization, “Maintain a documented description of the cryptographic architecture that includes: details of all algorithms, protocols, and keys used for the protection of cardholder data, including key strength and expiry date, a description of the key usage for each key, and an inventory of any HSMs and other SCDs used for key management.”
If you store, process, or transmit cardholder data, interact with payment card data in any way, or have the ability to impact someone else’s cardholder information or the security of that information, you are subject to comply with the PCI DSS. This exclusive video series, PCI Demystified, was developed to assist your organization in understanding what the Payment Card IndustryDataSecurityStandard (PCI DSS) is, who it applies to, what the specific requirements are, and what your organizations needs to know and do to become compliant.
Learn more at https://kirkpatrickprice.com/video/pci-requirement-3-5-1-maintain-documented-description-cryptographic-architecture/
Video Transcription
If your organization is a service provider, Requirement 3.5.1 has an additional set of documented procedures for you. This really requires that you do a little bit of extra diligence around documenting the keys that you use, documenting if you’re using an HSM, documenting what those might look like, who you might share keys with – there’s a great deal of information that you’re asked to keep in addition to just the normal documentation.
So, have a look at Requirement 3.5.1, specific to you as service provider. If you have any questions, spend some time with your assessor or QSA. I’m sure they’ll be happy to work you with you to identify what complying with this requirement might look like.
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Videos: https://kirkpatrickprice.com/video/
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KirkpatrickPrice is a licensed CPA firm, PCI QSA, and a HITRUSTCSFAssessor, registered with the PCAOB, providing assurance services to over 600 clients in more than 48 states, Canada, Asia, and Europe. The firm has over 12 years of experience in information security and compliance assurance by performing assessments, audits, and tests that strengthen information security and internal controls. KirkpatrickPrice most commonly provides advice on SOC 1, SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST CSF, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, FISMA, and CFPB frameworks.
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Contact us today: 800-770-2701 https://kirkpatrickprice.com/contact/

The project aims at developing a healthcare industry application that enables running a service to individuals to maintain their health records electronically a...

The project aims at developing a healthcare industry application that enables running a service to individuals to maintain their health records electronically at a secure centralized storage system using cloud computing technologies and granting remote access with appropriate authentication. The application bridges the huge gap that exists between the healthcare industry and other industries in adopting the cloud computing technologies

The project aims at developing a healthcare industry application that enables running a service to individuals to maintain their health records electronically at a secure centralized storage system using cloud computing technologies and granting remote access with appropriate authentication. The application bridges the huge gap that exists between the healthcare industry and other industries in adopting the cloud computing technologies

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean?

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean? CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER meaning - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER definition - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER explanation.
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In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.
CSPs are independent modules that can be used by different applications. A ...

The Cryptographic Service in Windows 7

Provides four management services: Catalog Database Service, which confirms the signatures of Windows files and allows new programs to be installed; ProtectedRoot Service, which adds and removes Trusted Root Certification Authority certificates from the computer; Automatic Root CertificateUpdate Service, which retrieves root certificates from Windows Update and enable scenarios such as SSL; and Key Service, which helps enroll the computer for certificates. If this service is stopped, these management services will not function properly. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean?

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean? CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER meaning - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER d...

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean? CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER meaning - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER definition - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER explanation.
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In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.
CSPs are independent modules that can be used by different applications. A user program calls CryptoAPI functions and these are redirected to CSPs functions. Since CSPs are responsible for implementing cryptographic algorithms and standards, applications do not need to be concerned about security details. Furthermore, one application can define which CSP it is going to use on its calls to CryptoAPI. In fact, all cryptographic activity is implemented in CSPs. CryptoAPI only works as a bridge between the application and the CSP.
CSPs are implemented basically as a special type of DLL with special restrictions on loading and use. Every CSP must be digitally signed by Microsoft and the signature is verified when Windows loads the CSP. In addition, after being loaded, Windows periodically re-scans the CSP to detect tampering, either by malicious software such as computer viruses or by the user him/herself trying to circumvent restrictions (for example on cryptographic key length) that might be built into the CSP's code.
To obtain a signature, non-Microsoft CSP developers must supply paperwork to Microsoft promising to obey various legal restrictions and giving valid contact information. As of circa 2000, Microsoft did not charge any fees to supply these signatures. For development and testing purposes, a CSP developer can configure Windows to recognize the developer's own signatures instead of Microsoft's, but this is a somewhat complex and obscure operation unsuitable for nontechnical end users.
The CAPI/CSP architecture had its origins in the era of restrictive US government controls on the export of cryptography. Microsoft's default or "base" CSP then included with Windows was limited to 512-bit RSA public-key cryptography and 40-bit symmetric cryptography, the maximum key lengths permitted in exportable mass market software at the time. CSPs implementing stronger cryptography were available only to U.S. residents, unless the CSPs themselves had received U.S. government export approval. The system of requiring CSPs to be signed only on presentation of completed paperwork was intended to prevent the easy spread of unauthorized CSPs implemented by anonymous or foreign developers. As such, it was presented as a concession made by Microsoft to the government, in order to get export approval for the CAPI itself.
After the Bernstein v. United States court decision establishing computer source code as protected free speech and the transfer of cryptographic regulatory authority from the U.S. StateDepartment to the more pro-export Commerce Department, the restrictions on key lengths were dropped, and the CSPs shipped with Windows now include full-strength cryptography. The main use of third-party CSPs is to interface with external cryptography hardware such as hardware security modules (HSM) or smart cards.

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean? CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER meaning - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER definition - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER explanation.
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In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.
CSPs are independent modules that can be used by different applications. A user program calls CryptoAPI functions and these are redirected to CSPs functions. Since CSPs are responsible for implementing cryptographic algorithms and standards, applications do not need to be concerned about security details. Furthermore, one application can define which CSP it is going to use on its calls to CryptoAPI. In fact, all cryptographic activity is implemented in CSPs. CryptoAPI only works as a bridge between the application and the CSP.
CSPs are implemented basically as a special type of DLL with special restrictions on loading and use. Every CSP must be digitally signed by Microsoft and the signature is verified when Windows loads the CSP. In addition, after being loaded, Windows periodically re-scans the CSP to detect tampering, either by malicious software such as computer viruses or by the user him/herself trying to circumvent restrictions (for example on cryptographic key length) that might be built into the CSP's code.
To obtain a signature, non-Microsoft CSP developers must supply paperwork to Microsoft promising to obey various legal restrictions and giving valid contact information. As of circa 2000, Microsoft did not charge any fees to supply these signatures. For development and testing purposes, a CSP developer can configure Windows to recognize the developer's own signatures instead of Microsoft's, but this is a somewhat complex and obscure operation unsuitable for nontechnical end users.
The CAPI/CSP architecture had its origins in the era of restrictive US government controls on the export of cryptography. Microsoft's default or "base" CSP then included with Windows was limited to 512-bit RSA public-key cryptography and 40-bit symmetric cryptography, the maximum key lengths permitted in exportable mass market software at the time. CSPs implementing stronger cryptography were available only to U.S. residents, unless the CSPs themselves had received U.S. government export approval. The system of requiring CSPs to be signed only on presentation of completed paperwork was intended to prevent the easy spread of unauthorized CSPs implemented by anonymous or foreign developers. As such, it was presented as a concession made by Microsoft to the government, in order to get export approval for the CAPI itself.
After the Bernstein v. United States court decision establishing computer source code as protected free speech and the transfer of cryptographic regulatory authority from the U.S. StateDepartment to the more pro-export Commerce Department, the restrictions on key lengths were dropped, and the CSPs shipped with Windows now include full-strength cryptography. The main use of third-party CSPs is to interface with external cryptography hardware such as hardware security modules (HSM) or smart cards.

Provides four management services: Catalog Database Service, which confirms the signatures of Windows files and allows new programs to be installed; ProtectedRoot Service, which adds and removes Trusted Root Certification Authority certificates from the computer; Automatic Root CertificateUpdate Service, which retrieves root certificates from Windows Update and enable scenarios such as SSL; and Key Service, which helps enroll the computer for certificates. If this service is stopped, these management services will not function properly. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

Provides four management services: Catalog Database Service, which confirms the signatures of Windows files and allows new programs to be installed; ProtectedRoot Service, which adds and removes Trusted Root Certification Authority certificates from the computer; Automatic Root CertificateUpdate Service, which retrieves root certificates from Windows Update and enable scenarios such as SSL; and Key Service, which helps enroll the computer for certificates. If this service is stopped, these management services will not function properly. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

Applying Java’s Cryptography

Learn how to control Java’s cryptographic features to protect your application and any data that you manage. This session explains what different cryptography features do, what threats are addressed by each feature, and where the configuration takes place. Topics include certificates, code signatures, authenticating dynamic JVM languages, TLS control, perfect forward security, and transparent JPA encryption.
Author:
Erik Costlow
Erik Costlow is a product manager in Oracle's Java PlatformGroup and a regular contributor to the Java Platform Group PM blog. Erik also works closely with industry on Oracle's Java RootCertificateProgram to ensure highest program quality. Previously Erik was employed at HP where he influenced design of the Fortify security analysis suite used by software deve...

published: 02 Jun 2015

A Retrospective on the Use of Export Cryptography

by DavidAdrianTLS has experienced three major vulnerabilities stemming from "export-grade" cryptography in the last year---FREAK, Logajm, and Drown. Although regulations limiting the strength of cryptography that could be exported from the United States were lifted in 1999, and export ciphers were subsequently deprecated in TLS 1.1, Internet-wide scanning showed that support for various forms of export cryptography remained widespread, and that attacks exploiting export-grade cryptography to attack non-export connections affected up to 37% of browser-trusted HTTPS servers in 2015. In this talk, I'll examine the technical details and historical background for all three export-related vulnerabilities, and provide recent vulnerability measurement data gathered from over a year Internet-wid...

published: 22 Nov 2016

Introduction to Security APIs - Graham Steel

Introduction to SecurityAPIs, by GrahamSteel
A security API is an Application Program Interface that allows untrusted code to access sensitive resources in a secure way. It is the interface between processes running with different levels of trust. Examples of security APIs include the interface between the tamper-resistant chip on a smartcard (trusted) and the code running on the client application (untrusted), the interface between a cryptographic Hardware Security Module (or HSM, trusted) and the host machine (untrusted), and web service APIs (an interface between a server, trusted by the service provider, and the rest of the Internet).
In this lecture, we will introduce security APIs with plenty of examples of attacks from real world applications ranging from authentication tokens to...

published: 09 Sep 2013

cjdns - The modular isp, the internet of the future ?

Imagine an Internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to destination against espionage and forgery, getting an IP address is as simple as generating a cryptographic key, core routers move data without a single memory look up, and denial of service is a term read about in history books. Finally, becoming an ISP is no longer confined to the mighty telecoms, anyone can do it by running some wires or turning on a wireless device. This is the vision of cjdns. https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/

published: 10 Nov 2013

Solve 3 Major Mobile Device Security Challenges with PKI | Webinar

How can you enable your mobile workforce whilst also keeping your business network and data secure? Find out in this on-demand webinar. https://goo.gl/yVCOF3
Navigate the webinar below:
1:35 Enabling a mobile workforce
3:09 Common challenges and how PKI can help solve them.
3:31 You can't rely on passwords alone for authentication
6:55 EmailSecurity on mobile devices when accessing work emails
11:04 How can you make sure only approved devices are accessing your networks?
13:43 Deploying mobile PKI
14:46 Deploying certificates at high volume
15:45 Leveraging a CA and Mobile Device ManagementIntegration
16:38 PKI as a solution for Mobile Security
17:56 Q- Do your certificates work with Pulse Secure?
18:40 Q- Do you integrate with any other MDMs?
19:26 Q- Can you have multiple certificat...

published: 26 Oct 2016

Why CloudHSM can Revolutionzie AWS -Todd Cignetti, Oleg Gryb

DeveloperTrack
When it comes to a cloud, a traditional mindset of many IT leaders and security analysts who are dealing with highly sensitive data can be shortly formulated as "we do not trust them".
The reason of that is not so much in insufficient security controls implemented by cloud providers, as in uncertainty, lack of knowledge and control by cloud consumers over security policies and processes implemented by the providers as well as the providers' reluctance to accept any legal liabilities or commit to SLA's for customer's cloud deployments.
The first obvious suggestion to make the risk manageable is to encrypt everything in transition and at rest with cryptographic keys that are not accessible by "them".
Implementation might be challenging though, because it's not clear how to ...

published: 17 Jun 2016

How Secure are Secure BGP Protocols

Speakers:
SharonGoldberg, Microsoft Research & Boston University.
A decade of research has been devoted to addressing vulnerabilities in BGP. The result is a plethora of BGP security proposals, each providing different types of security guarantees. To inform decisions about which of these protocols should be deployed in the Internet, we *quantify* and *compare* the ability of these protocols to blunt BGP "traffic attraction" attacks, namely, when an attacker manipulates BGP messages to blackhole traffic (e.g. prefix hijacks a la AS7007, Pakistan Telecom/YouTube), or intercept traffic (e.g. BGP man-in-the-middle attacks a la Pilosov & Kapela). We run simulations of traffic flow on maps of the Internet’s AS-level topology to determine and compare the impact of attacks on different BGP secu...

Data Security Essentials

Data is central to computing, and data security remains the biggest concern of application customers. Data needs to be handled securely at all stages, from transmission to computation and persistence. This presentation bootstraps you with the basics of applied cryptography, a choice of relevant algorithms, and the various secure data transport and storage options. It illustrates the trade-offs between cryptographic strength, performance, and storage size. It also covers the application of specialized hardware cryptographic processors for scenarios involving the most-stringent data security.
Authors:
Manish Maheshwari
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View more trainings by Manish Maheshwari at https://www.parleys.com/author/manish-maheshwari
Anirban Mukherjee
Anirban Mukherjee is a Software Architect at Verisi...

published: 08 Jun 2015

DEF CON 24 - Crypto and Privacy Village - David Wong - How to Backdoor Diffie-Hellman

Lately, several backdoors in cryptographic constructions, protocols and implementations have been surfacing in the wild: Dual-EC in RSA's B-Safe product, a modified Dual-EC in Juniper's operating system ScreenOS and a non-prime modulus in the open-source tool socat. Many papers have already discussed the fragility of cryptographic constructions not using nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers, as well as how such numbers can be safely picked. However, the question of how to introduce a backdoor in an already secure, safe and easy to audit implementation has so far rarely been researched (in the public).
BIO: David Wong (Twitter: @lyon01_david) is a Security Consultant at the Cryptography Services team of NCCGroup. He has been working in Security for over a year now, being part of several publicly ...

Entity Authentication and Symmetric Key Establishment - Bart Preneel

Entity Authentication and SymmetricKeyEstablishment, by Bart Preneel
Authentication methods are based on something known, owned, biometric, location or evidence of trusted third party authentication.
+ A password is a case of something known. Passwords are a vulnerable, but cheap and convenient way of authenticating an entity. Several techniques to augment their effectiveness are in use including challenge-response and one-time passwords.
+ Secure devices such as smart cards and USB tokens often combine the 'owned' with the 'known', since secret keys are locked in the token with a password or PIN code. However, within the broad category of secure tokens, trustworthiness is variable, depending on whether keys can be extracted, passwords can be eavesdropped or the device can be tampered w...

published: 06 Jul 2014

Cyber Security: Rise of the Smart Wearables | Zeki Erkin

SmartWearables: Are they improving our well-being or enabling discrimination?
Smart wearables are increasingly being used by millions of people to improve their well-being. Daily activities as well as vital signs can be sensed and processed to monitor individuals’ health status. There is also a significant chance to improve the overall healthcare system and reduce costs if those devices are also connected to the network of medical institutions. Unfortunately, how such data are collected, stored and processed at the moment are causing serious privacy concerns. For instance, the data collected can be used to identify people performing less physical activities, causing increased premium for insurance. In this talk, we are going to address the privacy concerns with respect to smart wearables...

A recent Cornell Law Review article casts doubt on the notion that the assignment of judges to the three-judge panels in the federal courts of appeal is truly random. Using quantitative techniques, the article’s authors come to the surprising conclusion that “several of the circuit courts have panels that are non-random in ways that impact the ideological balance of panels.” Though a review of the study reveals a number of methodological flaws, we find the issue of randomness in the legal system worthy of further study. In this talk, we demonstrate that cryptographic protocols can yield effective methods for producing unbiased panel assignments, truly random tax audits, and verifiably random visa lottery results. We present the theory behind these protocols and sketch how the courts and ot...

published: 21 Oct 2016

Panel #1: ICO Structuring

Moderator: JeremyGardner - Entrepreneur, BlockchainCapital
Jeremy Gardner is a founder and general partner of Ausum Ventures, a blockchain-focused venture fund. He is the founder and chairman of the Blockchain EducationNetwork (BEN) and a founder of Augur, the decentralized prediction market platform.
PatrickBaron - CEO, Ambisafe Financials
Patrick is CEO of Ambisafe Financial, a full service ICO provider. Ambisafe Financial has helped more than a dozen companies successfully launch their ICO including Propy ($15M), Polybius ($32M), and TaaS.Fund ($7.9M).
Vinny Lingham - CEO and Co-founder, Civic
Vinny is a 4-time successful startup founder & CEO. His latest venture, Civic sold $33 million tokens during its ICO. He was previously the founder and CEO of Gyft & Yola, Inc. that sold to ...

published: 15 Dec 2017

BlueHat IL 2017: Prof. Yehuda Lindell, Dyadic Security

Securing Data-In-Use in the Cloud - Myths and Facts
One of the greatest challenges facing companies who wish to move to the cloud is the potential theft of confidential and private data. There exist strong encryption solutions that enable the protection of data at rest, but they are actually more problematic than they look (in many of the offered solutions, you do not own your key). In addition, the power of the cloud is in data processing and this leaves data unprotected and vulnerable. There has therefore been much interest in new format-preserving and order-preserving encryption schemes that enable a cloud service to process data without ever decrypting it. At first sight, this solves the problem since the data always remains encrypted, and the cloud provider is never given the decrypti...

published: 06 Feb 2017

Cellular Exploitation on a Global Scale: The Rise and Fall of the Control Protocol

By Mathew Solnik
"Since the introduction of the smart phone, the issue of control has entered a new paradigm. Manufacturers and enterprises have claimed control over not just how your phone operates, but the software that is allowed to run on it. However, few people know that service providers have a hidden and pervasive level of control over your device. These hidden controls can be found in over 2 billion cellular devices worldwide. Organizations have been quietly deploying these controls in smart phones, feature phones, basebands, laptops, embedded M2M devices, and even certain cars. Someone with knowledge of these controls and the right techniques could potentially leverage them for cellular exploitation on a global scale.
We've reverse engineered embedded baseband and application sp...

Applying Java’s Cryptography

Learn how to control Java’s cryptographic features to protect your application and any data that you manage. This session explains what different cryptography f...

Learn how to control Java’s cryptographic features to protect your application and any data that you manage. This session explains what different cryptography features do, what threats are addressed by each feature, and where the configuration takes place. Topics include certificates, code signatures, authenticating dynamic JVM languages, TLS control, perfect forward security, and transparent JPA encryption.
Author:
Erik Costlow
Erik Costlow is a product manager in Oracle's Java PlatformGroup and a regular contributor to the Java Platform Group PM blog. Erik also works closely with industry on Oracle's Java RootCertificateProgram to ensure highest program quality. Previously Erik was employed at HP where he influenced design of the Fortify security analysis suite used by software developers across the world.
View more trainings by Erik Costlow at https://www.parleys.com/author/erik-costlow
Find more related tutorials at https://www.parleys.com/category/developer-training-tutorials

Learn how to control Java’s cryptographic features to protect your application and any data that you manage. This session explains what different cryptography features do, what threats are addressed by each feature, and where the configuration takes place. Topics include certificates, code signatures, authenticating dynamic JVM languages, TLS control, perfect forward security, and transparent JPA encryption.
Author:
Erik Costlow
Erik Costlow is a product manager in Oracle's Java PlatformGroup and a regular contributor to the Java Platform Group PM blog. Erik also works closely with industry on Oracle's Java RootCertificateProgram to ensure highest program quality. Previously Erik was employed at HP where he influenced design of the Fortify security analysis suite used by software developers across the world.
View more trainings by Erik Costlow at https://www.parleys.com/author/erik-costlow
Find more related tutorials at https://www.parleys.com/category/developer-training-tutorials

A Retrospective on the Use of Export Cryptography

by DavidAdrianTLS has experienced three major vulnerabilities stemming from "export-grade" cryptography in the last year---FREAK, Logajm, and Drown. Although...

by DavidAdrianTLS has experienced three major vulnerabilities stemming from "export-grade" cryptography in the last year---FREAK, Logajm, and Drown. Although regulations limiting the strength of cryptography that could be exported from the United States were lifted in 1999, and export ciphers were subsequently deprecated in TLS 1.1, Internet-wide scanning showed that support for various forms of export cryptography remained widespread, and that attacks exploiting export-grade cryptography to attack non-export connections affected up to 37% of browser-trusted HTTPS servers in 2015. In this talk, I'll examine the technical details and historical background for all three export-related vulnerabilities, and provide recent vulnerability measurement data gathered from over a year Internet-wide scans, finding that 2% of browser-trusted IPv4 servers remain vulnerable to FREAK, 1% to Logjam, and 16% to Drown. I'll examine why these vulnerabilities happened, how the inclusion of weakened cryptography in a protocol impacts security, and how to better design and implement cryptographic protocols in the future. Having been involved in the discovery of all three export vulnerabilities, I'll distill some lessons learned from measuring and analyzing export cryptography into recommendations for technologists and policymakers alike, and provide a historical context for the current "going dark'' and Apple vs. FBI debate.

by DavidAdrianTLS has experienced three major vulnerabilities stemming from "export-grade" cryptography in the last year---FREAK, Logajm, and Drown. Although regulations limiting the strength of cryptography that could be exported from the United States were lifted in 1999, and export ciphers were subsequently deprecated in TLS 1.1, Internet-wide scanning showed that support for various forms of export cryptography remained widespread, and that attacks exploiting export-grade cryptography to attack non-export connections affected up to 37% of browser-trusted HTTPS servers in 2015. In this talk, I'll examine the technical details and historical background for all three export-related vulnerabilities, and provide recent vulnerability measurement data gathered from over a year Internet-wide scans, finding that 2% of browser-trusted IPv4 servers remain vulnerable to FREAK, 1% to Logjam, and 16% to Drown. I'll examine why these vulnerabilities happened, how the inclusion of weakened cryptography in a protocol impacts security, and how to better design and implement cryptographic protocols in the future. Having been involved in the discovery of all three export vulnerabilities, I'll distill some lessons learned from measuring and analyzing export cryptography into recommendations for technologists and policymakers alike, and provide a historical context for the current "going dark'' and Apple vs. FBI debate.

Introduction to SecurityAPIs, by GrahamSteel
A security API is an Application Program Interface that allows untrusted code to access sensitive resources in a secure way. It is the interface between processes running with different levels of trust. Examples of security APIs include the interface between the tamper-resistant chip on a smartcard (trusted) and the code running on the client application (untrusted), the interface between a cryptographic Hardware Security Module (or HSM, trusted) and the host machine (untrusted), and web service APIs (an interface between a server, trusted by the service provider, and the rest of the Internet).
In this lecture, we will introduce security APIs with plenty of examples of attacks from real world applications ranging from authentication tokens to electricity meters to PIN processing in cash machine networks. We will introduce analysis techniques for such APIs that facilitate detection of flaws and ultimately the design of a secure API.
Learning Objectives
This talk covers
+ what a security API is and what it's for
+ real world examples of vulnerabilities
+ methodologies for secure API design
It was delivered by Graham Steel at SecAppDev 2013.
Graham Steel holds a masters in mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in informatics from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently a researcher at INRIA, the French national agency for computer science research, where he is part of the Prosecco project team based in central Paris.
Steel's main research interests are in formal analysis of information security and applied cryptography. His current work on cryptographic API verification involves using formal techniques to construct and analyse abstract models of cryptographic device interfaces. In addition to international conference and journal publications, his recent results have featured in Wired magazine and the New York Times.
He has taught courses on security APIs at Tsinghua University (Beijing) and the University of Venice (Italy) as well as organising a Dagstuhl seminar on the subject.

Introduction to SecurityAPIs, by GrahamSteel
A security API is an Application Program Interface that allows untrusted code to access sensitive resources in a secure way. It is the interface between processes running with different levels of trust. Examples of security APIs include the interface between the tamper-resistant chip on a smartcard (trusted) and the code running on the client application (untrusted), the interface between a cryptographic Hardware Security Module (or HSM, trusted) and the host machine (untrusted), and web service APIs (an interface between a server, trusted by the service provider, and the rest of the Internet).
In this lecture, we will introduce security APIs with plenty of examples of attacks from real world applications ranging from authentication tokens to electricity meters to PIN processing in cash machine networks. We will introduce analysis techniques for such APIs that facilitate detection of flaws and ultimately the design of a secure API.
Learning Objectives
This talk covers
+ what a security API is and what it's for
+ real world examples of vulnerabilities
+ methodologies for secure API design
It was delivered by Graham Steel at SecAppDev 2013.
Graham Steel holds a masters in mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in informatics from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently a researcher at INRIA, the French national agency for computer science research, where he is part of the Prosecco project team based in central Paris.
Steel's main research interests are in formal analysis of information security and applied cryptography. His current work on cryptographic API verification involves using formal techniques to construct and analyse abstract models of cryptographic device interfaces. In addition to international conference and journal publications, his recent results have featured in Wired magazine and the New York Times.
He has taught courses on security APIs at Tsinghua University (Beijing) and the University of Venice (Italy) as well as organising a Dagstuhl seminar on the subject.

cjdns - The modular isp, the internet of the future ?

Imagine an Internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to destination against espionage and forgery, getting an IP address is as simp...

Imagine an Internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to destination against espionage and forgery, getting an IP address is as simple as generating a cryptographic key, core routers move data without a single memory look up, and denial of service is a term read about in history books. Finally, becoming an ISP is no longer confined to the mighty telecoms, anyone can do it by running some wires or turning on a wireless device. This is the vision of cjdns. https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/

Imagine an Internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to destination against espionage and forgery, getting an IP address is as simple as generating a cryptographic key, core routers move data without a single memory look up, and denial of service is a term read about in history books. Finally, becoming an ISP is no longer confined to the mighty telecoms, anyone can do it by running some wires or turning on a wireless device. This is the vision of cjdns. https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/

Solve 3 Major Mobile Device Security Challenges with PKI | Webinar

How can you enable your mobile workforce whilst also keeping your business network and data secure? Find out in this on-demand webinar. https://goo.gl/yVCOF3
N...

How can you enable your mobile workforce whilst also keeping your business network and data secure? Find out in this on-demand webinar. https://goo.gl/yVCOF3
Navigate the webinar below:
1:35 Enabling a mobile workforce
3:09 Common challenges and how PKI can help solve them.
3:31 You can't rely on passwords alone for authentication
6:55 EmailSecurity on mobile devices when accessing work emails
11:04 How can you make sure only approved devices are accessing your networks?
13:43 Deploying mobile PKI
14:46 Deploying certificates at high volume
15:45 Leveraging a CA and Mobile Device ManagementIntegration
16:38 PKI as a solution for Mobile Security
17:56 Q- Do your certificates work with Pulse Secure?
18:40 Q- Do you integrate with any other MDMs?
19:26 Q- Can you have multiple certificates on each device?
20:13 Q- Can you put certificates on employee owned devices?
21:23 Q- For employees no longer with the company, especially BYOD devices, does revoking require having access to the mobile device?
22:32 Q- DoesAndroid support S/MIME capabilities?
*********************************************************************
GlobalSign is a WebTrust-certified certificate authority (CA) and provider of Identity Services.
Founded in Belgium in 1996, the company offers a diverse range of Identity service solutions.
GlobalSign provides PKI and Identity and Access Management services to provide enterprises with a platform to manage internal and external identities for the Internet of Everything. The services allow organizations to deploy secure e-services, manage employee and extended enterprise identities and automate PKI deployments for users, mobile, and machines. #SSL #PKI #IoT
*********************************************************************
✔ We've been a Certificate Authority for over 20 years!
🌎 Visit the link to find out more about GlobalSign:
➪ https://www.globalsign.com/
🔒 Click below to explore our SSL options:
➪ https://www.globalsign.com/en/ssl/
☁ Scalable options made available for business and enterprise levels, visit the link below to find out more details:
➪ https://www.globalsign.com/en/enterprise/
*********************************************************************
👉 Follow our Social Networks and stay connected:
● Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GlobalSignSSL/
● Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/globalsign
● Google Plus - https://www.google.com/+globalsign
● LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/928855/
*********************************************************************

How can you enable your mobile workforce whilst also keeping your business network and data secure? Find out in this on-demand webinar. https://goo.gl/yVCOF3
Navigate the webinar below:
1:35 Enabling a mobile workforce
3:09 Common challenges and how PKI can help solve them.
3:31 You can't rely on passwords alone for authentication
6:55 EmailSecurity on mobile devices when accessing work emails
11:04 How can you make sure only approved devices are accessing your networks?
13:43 Deploying mobile PKI
14:46 Deploying certificates at high volume
15:45 Leveraging a CA and Mobile Device ManagementIntegration
16:38 PKI as a solution for Mobile Security
17:56 Q- Do your certificates work with Pulse Secure?
18:40 Q- Do you integrate with any other MDMs?
19:26 Q- Can you have multiple certificates on each device?
20:13 Q- Can you put certificates on employee owned devices?
21:23 Q- For employees no longer with the company, especially BYOD devices, does revoking require having access to the mobile device?
22:32 Q- DoesAndroid support S/MIME capabilities?
*********************************************************************
GlobalSign is a WebTrust-certified certificate authority (CA) and provider of Identity Services.
Founded in Belgium in 1996, the company offers a diverse range of Identity service solutions.
GlobalSign provides PKI and Identity and Access Management services to provide enterprises with a platform to manage internal and external identities for the Internet of Everything. The services allow organizations to deploy secure e-services, manage employee and extended enterprise identities and automate PKI deployments for users, mobile, and machines. #SSL #PKI #IoT
*********************************************************************
✔ We've been a Certificate Authority for over 20 years!
🌎 Visit the link to find out more about GlobalSign:
➪ https://www.globalsign.com/
🔒 Click below to explore our SSL options:
➪ https://www.globalsign.com/en/ssl/
☁ Scalable options made available for business and enterprise levels, visit the link below to find out more details:
➪ https://www.globalsign.com/en/enterprise/
*********************************************************************
👉 Follow our Social Networks and stay connected:
● Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GlobalSignSSL/
● Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/globalsign
● Google Plus - https://www.google.com/+globalsign
● LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/928855/
*********************************************************************

Why CloudHSM can Revolutionzie AWS -Todd Cignetti, Oleg Gryb

DeveloperTrack
When it comes to a cloud, a traditional mindset of many IT leaders and security analysts who are dealing with highly sensitive data can be short...

DeveloperTrack
When it comes to a cloud, a traditional mindset of many IT leaders and security analysts who are dealing with highly sensitive data can be shortly formulated as "we do not trust them".
The reason of that is not so much in insufficient security controls implemented by cloud providers, as in uncertainty, lack of knowledge and control by cloud consumers over security policies and processes implemented by the providers as well as the providers' reluctance to accept any legal liabilities or commit to SLA's for customer's cloud deployments.
The first obvious suggestion to make the risk manageable is to encrypt everything in transition and at rest with cryptographic keys that are not accessible by "them".
Implementation might be challenging though, because it's not clear how to make the keys inaccessible by "them". Using CloudHSM solution looks like a good choice since by design cloud provider's employees do not have access to the content of partitions created by customers.
Lack of automation and manual HSM setup process are other challenges that need to be resolved for making the appliances compliant with a cloud automation principle. HSM setup automation tools have been created and are described in the scope of this presentation.
Yet another challenge to make Cloud HSM working in a secure manner is related to passing HSM credentials (partition level pins, private certificate) from an internal data center to a cloud that can be done through a credential-less EC2 instance validation process that is covered by this talk as well.

DeveloperTrack
When it comes to a cloud, a traditional mindset of many IT leaders and security analysts who are dealing with highly sensitive data can be shortly formulated as "we do not trust them".
The reason of that is not so much in insufficient security controls implemented by cloud providers, as in uncertainty, lack of knowledge and control by cloud consumers over security policies and processes implemented by the providers as well as the providers' reluctance to accept any legal liabilities or commit to SLA's for customer's cloud deployments.
The first obvious suggestion to make the risk manageable is to encrypt everything in transition and at rest with cryptographic keys that are not accessible by "them".
Implementation might be challenging though, because it's not clear how to make the keys inaccessible by "them". Using CloudHSM solution looks like a good choice since by design cloud provider's employees do not have access to the content of partitions created by customers.
Lack of automation and manual HSM setup process are other challenges that need to be resolved for making the appliances compliant with a cloud automation principle. HSM setup automation tools have been created and are described in the scope of this presentation.
Yet another challenge to make Cloud HSM working in a secure manner is related to passing HSM credentials (partition level pins, private certificate) from an internal data center to a cloud that can be done through a credential-less EC2 instance validation process that is covered by this talk as well.

Speakers:
SharonGoldberg, Microsoft Research & Boston University.
A decade of research has been devoted to addressing vulnerabilities in BGP. The result is a plethora of BGP security proposals, each providing different types of security guarantees. To inform decisions about which of these protocols should be deployed in the Internet, we *quantify* and *compare* the ability of these protocols to blunt BGP "traffic attraction" attacks, namely, when an attacker manipulates BGP messages to blackhole traffic (e.g. prefix hijacks a la AS7007, Pakistan Telecom/YouTube), or intercept traffic (e.g. BGP man-in-the-middle attacks a la Pilosov & Kapela). We run simulations of traffic flow on maps of the Internet’s AS-level topology to determine and compare the impact of attacks on different BGP security protocols. The key implication of our work is that route filtering can be as effective as cryptographic routing protocols like Secure BGP (S-BGP) and secure origin BGP (soBGP).
See more at: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog49/agenda

Speakers:
SharonGoldberg, Microsoft Research & Boston University.
A decade of research has been devoted to addressing vulnerabilities in BGP. The result is a plethora of BGP security proposals, each providing different types of security guarantees. To inform decisions about which of these protocols should be deployed in the Internet, we *quantify* and *compare* the ability of these protocols to blunt BGP "traffic attraction" attacks, namely, when an attacker manipulates BGP messages to blackhole traffic (e.g. prefix hijacks a la AS7007, Pakistan Telecom/YouTube), or intercept traffic (e.g. BGP man-in-the-middle attacks a la Pilosov & Kapela). We run simulations of traffic flow on maps of the Internet’s AS-level topology to determine and compare the impact of attacks on different BGP security protocols. The key implication of our work is that route filtering can be as effective as cryptographic routing protocols like Secure BGP (S-BGP) and secure origin BGP (soBGP).
See more at: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog49/agenda

Nucypher KMSAudioWhite Paper NuCypher KMS: Decentralized key management system Michael Egorov∗ and MacLane Wilkison† NuCypher David Nuñez‡ NICS Lab, Universidad de Málaga, Spain (Dated: December 21, 2017) NuCypher KMS is a decentralized KeyManagementSystem (KMS) that addresses the limitations of using consensus networks to securely store and manipulate private, encrypted data [1]. It provides encryption and cryptographic access control, performed by a decentralized network, leveraging proxy re-encryption [2]. Unlike centralized KMS as a service solutions, it doesn’t require trusting a service provider. NuCypher KMS enables sharing of sensitive data for both decentralized and centralized applications, providing security infrastructure for applications from healthcare to identity management to decentralized content marketplaces. NuCypher KMS will be an essential part of decentralized applications, just as SSL/TLS is an essential part of every secure web application
http://audiowhitepaper.io/nucypher-kms-audio-white-paper/

Nucypher KMSAudioWhite Paper NuCypher KMS: Decentralized key management system Michael Egorov∗ and MacLane Wilkison† NuCypher David Nuñez‡ NICS Lab, Universidad de Málaga, Spain (Dated: December 21, 2017) NuCypher KMS is a decentralized KeyManagementSystem (KMS) that addresses the limitations of using consensus networks to securely store and manipulate private, encrypted data [1]. It provides encryption and cryptographic access control, performed by a decentralized network, leveraging proxy re-encryption [2]. Unlike centralized KMS as a service solutions, it doesn’t require trusting a service provider. NuCypher KMS enables sharing of sensitive data for both decentralized and centralized applications, providing security infrastructure for applications from healthcare to identity management to decentralized content marketplaces. NuCypher KMS will be an essential part of decentralized applications, just as SSL/TLS is an essential part of every secure web application
http://audiowhitepaper.io/nucypher-kms-audio-white-paper/

Data Security Essentials

Data is central to computing, and data security remains the biggest concern of application customers. Data needs to be handled securely at all stages, from tran...

Data is central to computing, and data security remains the biggest concern of application customers. Data needs to be handled securely at all stages, from transmission to computation and persistence. This presentation bootstraps you with the basics of applied cryptography, a choice of relevant algorithms, and the various secure data transport and storage options. It illustrates the trade-offs between cryptographic strength, performance, and storage size. It also covers the application of specialized hardware cryptographic processors for scenarios involving the most-stringent data security.
Authors:
Manish Maheshwari
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View more trainings by Manish Maheshwari at https://www.parleys.com/author/manish-maheshwari
Anirban Mukherjee
Anirban Mukherjee is a Software Architect at Verisign and has over 15 years of industry experience designing and building large-scale applications. Over the years, he has acquired expertise in distributed systems, SaaS, text search, database systems and internet security, and has been involved in building and maintaining leading software products and platforms at Verisign, SuccessFactors, Oracle and IBM. He has a BTech, ECE from IIT Kharagpur and an MS, CS from UMass, Amherst. He has done regular presentations and technical talks at various events including JavaOne, Verisign Technical Symposium and Oracle Open World.
View more trainings by Anirban Mukherjee at https://www.parleys.com/author/anirban-mukherjee
Find more related tutorials at https://www.parleys.com/category/developer-training-tutorials

Data is central to computing, and data security remains the biggest concern of application customers. Data needs to be handled securely at all stages, from transmission to computation and persistence. This presentation bootstraps you with the basics of applied cryptography, a choice of relevant algorithms, and the various secure data transport and storage options. It illustrates the trade-offs between cryptographic strength, performance, and storage size. It also covers the application of specialized hardware cryptographic processors for scenarios involving the most-stringent data security.
Authors:
Manish Maheshwari
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View more trainings by Manish Maheshwari at https://www.parleys.com/author/manish-maheshwari
Anirban Mukherjee
Anirban Mukherjee is a Software Architect at Verisign and has over 15 years of industry experience designing and building large-scale applications. Over the years, he has acquired expertise in distributed systems, SaaS, text search, database systems and internet security, and has been involved in building and maintaining leading software products and platforms at Verisign, SuccessFactors, Oracle and IBM. He has a BTech, ECE from IIT Kharagpur and an MS, CS from UMass, Amherst. He has done regular presentations and technical talks at various events including JavaOne, Verisign Technical Symposium and Oracle Open World.
View more trainings by Anirban Mukherjee at https://www.parleys.com/author/anirban-mukherjee
Find more related tutorials at https://www.parleys.com/category/developer-training-tutorials

DEF CON 24 - Crypto and Privacy Village - David Wong - How to Backdoor Diffie-Hellman

Lately, several backdoors in cryptographic constructions, protocols and implementations have been surfacing in the wild: Dual-EC in RSA's B-Safe product, a modi...

Lately, several backdoors in cryptographic constructions, protocols and implementations have been surfacing in the wild: Dual-EC in RSA's B-Safe product, a modified Dual-EC in Juniper's operating system ScreenOS and a non-prime modulus in the open-source tool socat. Many papers have already discussed the fragility of cryptographic constructions not using nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers, as well as how such numbers can be safely picked. However, the question of how to introduce a backdoor in an already secure, safe and easy to audit implementation has so far rarely been researched (in the public).
BIO: David Wong (Twitter: @lyon01_david) is a Security Consultant at the Cryptography Services team of NCCGroup. He has been working in Security for over a year now, being part of several publicly funded open source audits such as the OpenSSL and the Let's Encrypt ones. He has conducted research in many domains in cryptography, publishing whitepapers as well as writing numerous editions of the Cryptography Services private bulletin. He has been a trainer for cryptography courses at BlackHat US 2015 and BlackHat US 2016.

Lately, several backdoors in cryptographic constructions, protocols and implementations have been surfacing in the wild: Dual-EC in RSA's B-Safe product, a modified Dual-EC in Juniper's operating system ScreenOS and a non-prime modulus in the open-source tool socat. Many papers have already discussed the fragility of cryptographic constructions not using nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers, as well as how such numbers can be safely picked. However, the question of how to introduce a backdoor in an already secure, safe and easy to audit implementation has so far rarely been researched (in the public).
BIO: David Wong (Twitter: @lyon01_david) is a Security Consultant at the Cryptography Services team of NCCGroup. He has been working in Security for over a year now, being part of several publicly funded open source audits such as the OpenSSL and the Let's Encrypt ones. He has conducted research in many domains in cryptography, publishing whitepapers as well as writing numerous editions of the Cryptography Services private bulletin. He has been a trainer for cryptography courses at BlackHat US 2015 and BlackHat US 2016.

Entity Authentication and SymmetricKeyEstablishment, by Bart Preneel
Authentication methods are based on something known, owned, biometric, location or evidence of trusted third party authentication.
+ A password is a case of something known. Passwords are a vulnerable, but cheap and convenient way of authenticating an entity. Several techniques to augment their effectiveness are in use including challenge-response and one-time passwords.
+ Secure devices such as smart cards and USB tokens often combine the 'owned' with the 'known', since secret keys are locked in the token with a password or PIN code. However, within the broad category of secure tokens, trustworthiness is variable, depending on whether keys can be extracted, passwords can be eavesdropped or the device can be tampered with.
+ Biometry identifies a person via physical characteristics.
+ Location is often used as the sole authentication factor, but is insecure given the relative ease of spoofing IP or MAC addresses.
+ Multi-factor authentication is stronger than single-factor.
+ The Kerberos protocol uses a key distribution-based authentication server. Service consumers must authenticate with a central server to obtain a secret session key with service providers. Such schemes require a single sign-on to access servers across a trust domain.
While public key cryptography is well suited to entity authentication, performance constraints often mandate a symmetric algorithm for encrypting data passed between systems. Key establishment should be linked to authentication, so that a party has assurances that a key is only shared with the authenticated party. The Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocol underlies a host of current technologies such as STS (Station-to-Station protocol) and IKE.
Learning objectives
Gain insight into
+ entity authentication protocols,
+ the benefits and limitations of authentication factors,
+ key establishment protocols,
+ why and how to use authentication servers.
This lecture was delivered by Bart Preneel in Leuven on Tuesday February 11th at SecAppDev 2014.
Professor Bart Preneel heads the COSIC (COmputer Security and Industrial Cryptography) research group at KU Leuven. His main research area is information security with a focus on cryptographic algorithms and protocols as well as their applications to both computer and network security, and mobile communications.
He teaches cryptology, network security and coding theory at the KU Leuven and was visiting professor at the Ruhr Universitaet Bochum (Germany), the T.U.Graz (Austria), the University of Bergen (Norway), and the Universiteit Gent (Belgium). In '93-'94 he was a research fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught intensive courses around the world.
He undertakes industrial consulting (Mastercard International, S.W.I.F.T., ProtonWorld International,...), and participates in the work of ISO/IECJTC1/SC27/WG2.
Professor Preneel is Vice President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and co-founder and chairman of LSEC vzw (Leuven Security ExcellenceConsortium).

Entity Authentication and SymmetricKeyEstablishment, by Bart Preneel
Authentication methods are based on something known, owned, biometric, location or evidence of trusted third party authentication.
+ A password is a case of something known. Passwords are a vulnerable, but cheap and convenient way of authenticating an entity. Several techniques to augment their effectiveness are in use including challenge-response and one-time passwords.
+ Secure devices such as smart cards and USB tokens often combine the 'owned' with the 'known', since secret keys are locked in the token with a password or PIN code. However, within the broad category of secure tokens, trustworthiness is variable, depending on whether keys can be extracted, passwords can be eavesdropped or the device can be tampered with.
+ Biometry identifies a person via physical characteristics.
+ Location is often used as the sole authentication factor, but is insecure given the relative ease of spoofing IP or MAC addresses.
+ Multi-factor authentication is stronger than single-factor.
+ The Kerberos protocol uses a key distribution-based authentication server. Service consumers must authenticate with a central server to obtain a secret session key with service providers. Such schemes require a single sign-on to access servers across a trust domain.
While public key cryptography is well suited to entity authentication, performance constraints often mandate a symmetric algorithm for encrypting data passed between systems. Key establishment should be linked to authentication, so that a party has assurances that a key is only shared with the authenticated party. The Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocol underlies a host of current technologies such as STS (Station-to-Station protocol) and IKE.
Learning objectives
Gain insight into
+ entity authentication protocols,
+ the benefits and limitations of authentication factors,
+ key establishment protocols,
+ why and how to use authentication servers.
This lecture was delivered by Bart Preneel in Leuven on Tuesday February 11th at SecAppDev 2014.
Professor Bart Preneel heads the COSIC (COmputer Security and Industrial Cryptography) research group at KU Leuven. His main research area is information security with a focus on cryptographic algorithms and protocols as well as their applications to both computer and network security, and mobile communications.
He teaches cryptology, network security and coding theory at the KU Leuven and was visiting professor at the Ruhr Universitaet Bochum (Germany), the T.U.Graz (Austria), the University of Bergen (Norway), and the Universiteit Gent (Belgium). In '93-'94 he was a research fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught intensive courses around the world.
He undertakes industrial consulting (Mastercard International, S.W.I.F.T., ProtonWorld International,...), and participates in the work of ISO/IECJTC1/SC27/WG2.
Professor Preneel is Vice President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and co-founder and chairman of LSEC vzw (Leuven Security ExcellenceConsortium).

Cyber Security: Rise of the Smart Wearables | Zeki Erkin

SmartWearables: Are they improving our well-being or enabling discrimination?
Smart wearables are increasingly being used by millions of people to improve the...

SmartWearables: Are they improving our well-being or enabling discrimination?
Smart wearables are increasingly being used by millions of people to improve their well-being. Daily activities as well as vital signs can be sensed and processed to monitor individuals’ health status. There is also a significant chance to improve the overall healthcare system and reduce costs if those devices are also connected to the network of medical institutions. Unfortunately, how such data are collected, stored and processed at the moment are causing serious privacy concerns. For instance, the data collected can be used to identify people performing less physical activities, causing increased premium for insurance. In this talk, we are going to address the privacy concerns with respect to smart wearables and discuss social, technical and legal solutions to eliminate the possible risks of misuse.
Zeki Erkin
Dr. Erkin is a tenured assistant professor in the Cyber SecurityGroup, Delft University of Technology. He received his PhD degree on "Secure Signal Processing" in 2010 from Delft University of Technology where he has continued his research on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, particularly on Computational Privacy.
His interest is on protecting sensitive data from malicious entities and service providers using cryptographic tools. While his interest on solutions based on provably secure cryptographic protocols is the core of his research, Dr. Erkin is also investigating distributed trust for building such protocols without trusted entities.
Dr. Erkin has been involved in several European and national projects one of which is on Blockchain and LogisticsInnovations where an unbounded scalable blockchain version with confidentiality is being developed. He is serving also in numerous committees including IEEE TIFS, Eurasip SAT on Information Security, is an area editor in Eurasip Journal on Information Security and Elsevier Image processing. Dr. Erkin is a member of TU Delft Blockchain Lab, also serving as a core member of Cyber Security Next Generation, a community of cyber security researchers in the Netherlands.

SmartWearables: Are they improving our well-being or enabling discrimination?
Smart wearables are increasingly being used by millions of people to improve their well-being. Daily activities as well as vital signs can be sensed and processed to monitor individuals’ health status. There is also a significant chance to improve the overall healthcare system and reduce costs if those devices are also connected to the network of medical institutions. Unfortunately, how such data are collected, stored and processed at the moment are causing serious privacy concerns. For instance, the data collected can be used to identify people performing less physical activities, causing increased premium for insurance. In this talk, we are going to address the privacy concerns with respect to smart wearables and discuss social, technical and legal solutions to eliminate the possible risks of misuse.
Zeki Erkin
Dr. Erkin is a tenured assistant professor in the Cyber SecurityGroup, Delft University of Technology. He received his PhD degree on "Secure Signal Processing" in 2010 from Delft University of Technology where he has continued his research on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, particularly on Computational Privacy.
His interest is on protecting sensitive data from malicious entities and service providers using cryptographic tools. While his interest on solutions based on provably secure cryptographic protocols is the core of his research, Dr. Erkin is also investigating distributed trust for building such protocols without trusted entities.
Dr. Erkin has been involved in several European and national projects one of which is on Blockchain and LogisticsInnovations where an unbounded scalable blockchain version with confidentiality is being developed. He is serving also in numerous committees including IEEE TIFS, Eurasip SAT on Information Security, is an area editor in Eurasip Journal on Information Security and Elsevier Image processing. Dr. Erkin is a member of TU Delft Blockchain Lab, also serving as a core member of Cyber Security Next Generation, a community of cyber security researchers in the Netherlands.

A recent Cornell Law Review article casts doubt on the notion that the assignment of judges to the three-judge panels in the federal courts of appeal is truly r...

A recent Cornell Law Review article casts doubt on the notion that the assignment of judges to the three-judge panels in the federal courts of appeal is truly random. Using quantitative techniques, the article’s authors come to the surprising conclusion that “several of the circuit courts have panels that are non-random in ways that impact the ideological balance of panels.” Though a review of the study reveals a number of methodological flaws, we find the issue of randomness in the legal system worthy of further study. In this talk, we demonstrate that cryptographic protocols can yield effective methods for producing unbiased panel assignments, truly random tax audits, and verifiably random visa lottery results. We present the theory behind these protocols and sketch how the courts and other public institutions could apply them in practice. This talk is based on a joint work with Keith Winstein.
Speaker:
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs
PhD Student in Computer Science, Stanford University
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs is a fourth-year PhD student in computer science at Stanford, advised by Dan Boneh. Henry’s research focuses on applied cryptography and computer security and, in particular, his work uses cryptographic techniques to bring rigorous privacy properties to large-scale computer systems.
Henry’s recent research projects include a system for anonymous messaging at million-user scale, a cryptographic hashing algorithm for secure password storage, and a scheme for protecting cryptographic secrets on devices with poor sources of randomness. For these research efforts, Henry and his co-authors have received the 2015IEEESecurity and Privacy Distinguished PaperAward and the 2016 Caspar Bowden Award for OutstandingResearch in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
Henry has had a longstanding interest in the interaction of technology and society. Before coming to Stanford, Henry spent a year deploying health information systems for an NGO in rural Uganda. He also has conducted fieldwork on computer security challenges in Internet cafes in Ghana, worked on network infrastructure for a rural Internet service provider in Nepal, and studied the culture around online courses in India.
Henry received a B.S. in computer science (with distinction) from Yale University in 2010, and he graduated from Berkeley High School in 2006. An NSFGraduateResearch Fellowship and an NDSEG Fellowship have generously funded Henry’s research at Stanford.

A recent Cornell Law Review article casts doubt on the notion that the assignment of judges to the three-judge panels in the federal courts of appeal is truly random. Using quantitative techniques, the article’s authors come to the surprising conclusion that “several of the circuit courts have panels that are non-random in ways that impact the ideological balance of panels.” Though a review of the study reveals a number of methodological flaws, we find the issue of randomness in the legal system worthy of further study. In this talk, we demonstrate that cryptographic protocols can yield effective methods for producing unbiased panel assignments, truly random tax audits, and verifiably random visa lottery results. We present the theory behind these protocols and sketch how the courts and other public institutions could apply them in practice. This talk is based on a joint work with Keith Winstein.
Speaker:
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs
PhD Student in Computer Science, Stanford University
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs is a fourth-year PhD student in computer science at Stanford, advised by Dan Boneh. Henry’s research focuses on applied cryptography and computer security and, in particular, his work uses cryptographic techniques to bring rigorous privacy properties to large-scale computer systems.
Henry’s recent research projects include a system for anonymous messaging at million-user scale, a cryptographic hashing algorithm for secure password storage, and a scheme for protecting cryptographic secrets on devices with poor sources of randomness. For these research efforts, Henry and his co-authors have received the 2015IEEESecurity and Privacy Distinguished PaperAward and the 2016 Caspar Bowden Award for OutstandingResearch in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
Henry has had a longstanding interest in the interaction of technology and society. Before coming to Stanford, Henry spent a year deploying health information systems for an NGO in rural Uganda. He also has conducted fieldwork on computer security challenges in Internet cafes in Ghana, worked on network infrastructure for a rural Internet service provider in Nepal, and studied the culture around online courses in India.
Henry received a B.S. in computer science (with distinction) from Yale University in 2010, and he graduated from Berkeley High School in 2006. An NSFGraduateResearch Fellowship and an NDSEG Fellowship have generously funded Henry’s research at Stanford.

Moderator: JeremyGardner - Entrepreneur, BlockchainCapital
Jeremy Gardner is a founder and general partner of Ausum Ventures, a blockchain-focused venture fund. He is the founder and chairman of the Blockchain EducationNetwork (BEN) and a founder of Augur, the decentralized prediction market platform.
PatrickBaron - CEO, Ambisafe Financials
Patrick is CEO of Ambisafe Financial, a full service ICO provider. Ambisafe Financial has helped more than a dozen companies successfully launch their ICO including Propy ($15M), Polybius ($32M), and TaaS.Fund ($7.9M).
Vinny Lingham - CEO and Co-founder, Civic
Vinny is a 4-time successful startup founder & CEO. His latest venture, Civic sold $33 million tokens during its ICO. He was previously the founder and CEO of Gyft & Yola, Inc. that sold to First Data Corporation in 2014. He has appeared as one of the investors (dragon and shark) on two South Africa’s reality TV series: Dragons’ Den and Shark Tank.
Matthew Liston - CryptoNative & CSO, GnosisMatt ran the Gnosis token sale, founded Augur, and advises several blockchain projects. He learned about Bitcoin in 2009 at a Caltech quantum cash talk and dove in headfirst in 2012 through smart contracts and autonomous agents.
Ameen Soleimani - Co-Founder & CEO, Spankchain
Ameen is the cofounder and CEO of SpankChain, an economic platform for the adult entertainment industry built on Ethereum. He is a software engineer and previously worked at ConsenSys on payment channels, energy markets and AdChain.
Jason Teustch - Founder, TrueBit
Jason Teutsch is the founder of TrueBit, an initiative bringing scalable computation to blockchains. His research focuses on distributed systems security, game theory, and algorithmic randomness. He has held multiple postdoctoral/research positions and Fulbright fellowships.

Moderator: JeremyGardner - Entrepreneur, BlockchainCapital
Jeremy Gardner is a founder and general partner of Ausum Ventures, a blockchain-focused venture fund. He is the founder and chairman of the Blockchain EducationNetwork (BEN) and a founder of Augur, the decentralized prediction market platform.
PatrickBaron - CEO, Ambisafe Financials
Patrick is CEO of Ambisafe Financial, a full service ICO provider. Ambisafe Financial has helped more than a dozen companies successfully launch their ICO including Propy ($15M), Polybius ($32M), and TaaS.Fund ($7.9M).
Vinny Lingham - CEO and Co-founder, Civic
Vinny is a 4-time successful startup founder & CEO. His latest venture, Civic sold $33 million tokens during its ICO. He was previously the founder and CEO of Gyft & Yola, Inc. that sold to First Data Corporation in 2014. He has appeared as one of the investors (dragon and shark) on two South Africa’s reality TV series: Dragons’ Den and Shark Tank.
Matthew Liston - CryptoNative & CSO, GnosisMatt ran the Gnosis token sale, founded Augur, and advises several blockchain projects. He learned about Bitcoin in 2009 at a Caltech quantum cash talk and dove in headfirst in 2012 through smart contracts and autonomous agents.
Ameen Soleimani - Co-Founder & CEO, Spankchain
Ameen is the cofounder and CEO of SpankChain, an economic platform for the adult entertainment industry built on Ethereum. He is a software engineer and previously worked at ConsenSys on payment channels, energy markets and AdChain.
Jason Teustch - Founder, TrueBit
Jason Teutsch is the founder of TrueBit, an initiative bringing scalable computation to blockchains. His research focuses on distributed systems security, game theory, and algorithmic randomness. He has held multiple postdoctoral/research positions and Fulbright fellowships.

BlueHat IL 2017: Prof. Yehuda Lindell, Dyadic Security

Securing Data-In-Use in the Cloud - Myths and Facts
One of the greatest challenges facing companies who wish to move to the cloud is the potential theft of conf...

Securing Data-In-Use in the Cloud - Myths and Facts
One of the greatest challenges facing companies who wish to move to the cloud is the potential theft of confidential and private data. There exist strong encryption solutions that enable the protection of data at rest, but they are actually more problematic than they look (in many of the offered solutions, you do not own your key). In addition, the power of the cloud is in data processing and this leaves data unprotected and vulnerable. There has therefore been much interest in new format-preserving and order-preserving encryption schemes that enable a cloud service to process data without ever decrypting it. At first sight, this solves the problem since the data always remains encrypted, and the cloud provider is never given the decryption key.
In this presentation, we will discuss the problems that arise when attempting to encrypt in the cloud. We will begin by discussing why key ownership is a big issue and problem, and what other alternatives exist. Next, we will show that format and order preserving encryption methods provide a very low level of security. We will describe concrete attacks on realistic use cases for these methods. Finally, we will propose a new paradigm for solving the problem of protecting data in use based on secure multiparty computation. This is a technology which has only recently become practical and can now be used to compute on data without ever revealing it. We will describe how multiparty computation techniques (combined with other advanced cryptographic methods) can be used to process data in the cloud without ever revealing it.
New technologies and solutions for processing encrypted data are appearing now in products and there is much interest in adopting them. In this talk, we will demystify these solutions and provide a deep understanding that is necessary for analyzing their security. Attacks will be presented that show that strong security claims often attributed to some solutions do not hold up.

Securing Data-In-Use in the Cloud - Myths and Facts
One of the greatest challenges facing companies who wish to move to the cloud is the potential theft of confidential and private data. There exist strong encryption solutions that enable the protection of data at rest, but they are actually more problematic than they look (in many of the offered solutions, you do not own your key). In addition, the power of the cloud is in data processing and this leaves data unprotected and vulnerable. There has therefore been much interest in new format-preserving and order-preserving encryption schemes that enable a cloud service to process data without ever decrypting it. At first sight, this solves the problem since the data always remains encrypted, and the cloud provider is never given the decryption key.
In this presentation, we will discuss the problems that arise when attempting to encrypt in the cloud. We will begin by discussing why key ownership is a big issue and problem, and what other alternatives exist. Next, we will show that format and order preserving encryption methods provide a very low level of security. We will describe concrete attacks on realistic use cases for these methods. Finally, we will propose a new paradigm for solving the problem of protecting data in use based on secure multiparty computation. This is a technology which has only recently become practical and can now be used to compute on data without ever revealing it. We will describe how multiparty computation techniques (combined with other advanced cryptographic methods) can be used to process data in the cloud without ever revealing it.
New technologies and solutions for processing encrypted data are appearing now in products and there is much interest in adopting them. In this talk, we will demystify these solutions and provide a deep understanding that is necessary for analyzing their security. Attacks will be presented that show that strong security claims often attributed to some solutions do not hold up.

Cellular Exploitation on a Global Scale: The Rise and Fall of the Control Protocol

By Mathew Solnik
"Since the introduction of the smart phone, the issue of control has entered a new paradigm. Manufacturers and enterprises have claimed contro...

By Mathew Solnik
"Since the introduction of the smart phone, the issue of control has entered a new paradigm. Manufacturers and enterprises have claimed control over not just how your phone operates, but the software that is allowed to run on it. However, few people know that service providers have a hidden and pervasive level of control over your device. These hidden controls can be found in over 2 billion cellular devices worldwide. Organizations have been quietly deploying these controls in smart phones, feature phones, basebands, laptops, embedded M2M devices, and even certain cars. Someone with knowledge of these controls and the right techniques could potentially leverage them for cellular exploitation on a global scale.
We've reverse engineered embedded baseband and application space code. We've torn apart the Over-the-Air communications and implemented our own code to speak the relevant protocols. Layer by layer, we've deconstructed these hidden controls to learn how they work. While performing this work, we've unearthed subtle flaws in how the communication is handled and implemented. After understanding these flaws, we've written proof-of-concept exploits to demonstrate the true risk this software presents to the end user.
In this presentation, we will discuss and disclose how Over-the-Air code execution can be obtained on the major cellular platforms and networks (GSM/CDMA/LTE). Including but not limited to Android, iOS, Blackberry, and embedded M2M devices. You will come away from this talk armed with detailed insight into these hidden control mechanisms as well as the tools to help assess and protect from the new threats this hidden attack surface presents. These tools will include the ability to dynamically test proprietary system applications and simulate different aspects of a cellular environment."

By Mathew Solnik
"Since the introduction of the smart phone, the issue of control has entered a new paradigm. Manufacturers and enterprises have claimed control over not just how your phone operates, but the software that is allowed to run on it. However, few people know that service providers have a hidden and pervasive level of control over your device. These hidden controls can be found in over 2 billion cellular devices worldwide. Organizations have been quietly deploying these controls in smart phones, feature phones, basebands, laptops, embedded M2M devices, and even certain cars. Someone with knowledge of these controls and the right techniques could potentially leverage them for cellular exploitation on a global scale.
We've reverse engineered embedded baseband and application space code. We've torn apart the Over-the-Air communications and implemented our own code to speak the relevant protocols. Layer by layer, we've deconstructed these hidden controls to learn how they work. While performing this work, we've unearthed subtle flaws in how the communication is handled and implemented. After understanding these flaws, we've written proof-of-concept exploits to demonstrate the true risk this software presents to the end user.
In this presentation, we will discuss and disclose how Over-the-Air code execution can be obtained on the major cellular platforms and networks (GSM/CDMA/LTE). Including but not limited to Android, iOS, Blackberry, and embedded M2M devices. You will come away from this talk armed with detailed insight into these hidden control mechanisms as well as the tools to help assess and protect from the new threats this hidden attack surface presents. These tools will include the ability to dynamically test proprietary system applications and simulate different aspects of a cellular environment."

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean?

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean? CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER meaning - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER definition - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER explanation.
Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ license.
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In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.
CSPs are independent modules that can be used by different applications. A user program calls CryptoAPI functions and these are redirected to CSPs functions. Since CSPs are responsible for implementing cryptographic algorithms and standards, applications do not need to be concerned about security details. Furthermore, one application can define which CSP it is going to use on its calls to CryptoAPI. In fact, all cryptographic activity is implemented in CSPs. CryptoAPI only works as a bridge between the application and the CSP.
CSPs are implemented basically as a special type of DLL with special restrictions on loading and use. Every CSP must be digitally signed by Microsoft and the signature is verified when Windows loads the CSP. In addition, after being loaded, Windows periodically re-scans the CSP to detect tampering, either by malicious software such as computer viruses or by the user him/herself trying to circumvent restrictions (for example on cryptographic key length) that might be built into the CSP's code.
To obtain a signature, non-Microsoft CSP developers must supply paperwork to Microsoft promising to obey various legal restrictions and giving valid contact information. As of circa 2000, Microsoft did not charge any fees to supply these signatures. For development and testing purposes, a CSP developer can configure Windows to recognize the developer's own signatures instead of Microsoft's, but this is a somewhat complex and obscure operation unsuitable for nontechnical end users.
The CAPI/CSP architecture had its origins in the era of restrictive US government controls on the export of cryptography. Microsoft's default or "base" CSP then included with Windows was limited to 512-bit RSA public-key cryptography and 40-bit symmetric cryptography, the maximum key lengths permitted in exportable mass market software at the time. CSPs implementing stronger cryptography were available only to U.S. residents, unless the CSPs themselves had received U.S. government export approval. The system of requiring CSPs to be signed only on presentation of completed paperwork was intended to prevent the easy spread of unauthorized CSPs implemented by anonymous or foreign developers. As such, it was presented as a concession made by Microsoft to the government, in order to get export approval for the CAPI itself.
After the Bernstein v. United States court decision establishing computer source code as protected free speech and the transfer of cryptographic regulatory authority from the U.S. StateDepartment to the more pro-export Commerce Department, the restrictions on key lengths were dropped, and the CSPs shipped with Windows now include full-strength cryptography. The main use of third-party CSPs is to interface with external cryptography hardware such as hardware security modules (HSM) or smart cards.

2:07

Windows 10 : How to Start or Stop Cryptographic services

This video show How to Start or Stop Cryptographic services in
Windows 10 Pro. I use Dell...

The Cryptographic Service in Windows 7

Provides four management services: Catalog Database Service, which confirms the signatures of Windows files and allows new programs to be installed; ProtectedRoot Service, which adds and removes Trusted Root Certification Authority certificates from the computer; Automatic Root CertificateUpdate Service, which retrieves root certificates from Windows Update and enable scenarios such as SSL; and Key Service, which helps enroll the computer for certificates. If this service is stopped, these management services will not function properly. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

What is CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION? What does CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION mean?

What is CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION? What does CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION mean? CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION meaning - CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION definition - CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION explanation.
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Client-side encryption is the cryptographic technique of encrypting data on the sender's side, before it is transmitted to a server such as a cloud storage service. Client-side encryption features an encryption key that is not available to the service provider, making it difficult or impossible for service providers to decrypt hosted data. Client-side encryption allows for the creation of zero-knowledge applications whose providers cannot access the data its users have stored, thus offering a high level of privacy.
Client-side encryption is widely recognized as an exceptionally robust data security strategy. By eliminating the potential for data to be viewed by service providers (or third parties that compel service providers to deliver access to data), client-side encryption ensures that data and files that are stored in the cloud can only be viewed on the client side of the exchange. This prevents data loss and the unauthorized disclosure of private or personal files, providing increased peace of mind for both personal and business users.
Current academic scholarship as well as recommendations by industry professionals provide much support for developers to include client-side encryption to protect the confidentiality and integrity of information.
Examples of cloud storage services that provide client-side encryption are Tresorit, MEGA and SpiderOak. As ofFebruary 2016, neither Apple iCloud, Google Drive, or Dropbox provide client-side encryption.

15:11

What are certificates?

Certificates are used to prove identity and used for creating secure communication. Check ...

What are certificates?

Certificates are used to prove identity and used for creating secure communication. Check out http://itfreetraining.com for more of our always free training videos. This video looks at how a certificate works, what is a certificate and how they are used for identification and secure communication.
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http://itfreetraining.com/Handouts/Certificates/WhatAreCertificates.pdfWhat is a certificate?
A certificate is an electronic document that contains data fields. When compared to a traditional paper certificate there are some similarities between an electronic certificate and a physical certificate. Digital certificates like a physical certificate are issued by an authority. For example, a university may issue a certificate to a student to show that they have completed the necessary work in order to graduate. The next question is, would you trust a physically certificate? Digital certificates work the same way. They are issued from an authority and the question becomes would you trust the authority that issued the certificate? Electronic certificates also contain other fields like who or what the certificate was issued to, how long it is valid, the public key and the digital signature. If a digital certificate is presented to a user or computer, the user or computer is able to check the certificate to ensure the person using it should be using it. Also the certificate contains a digital signature which allows the certificate to be checked to make sure it has not been modified.
Digital Signature
A digital signature provides a method for a certificate to be checked to ensure it has not been modified. In order to do this, a hash value is created for the certificate. To generate a hash value the certificate is put through a function to create a single value. Hash functions are designed so different certificates will not produce the same value, however the hash value cannot be used to generate the original certificate. The same principal applies to a person's fingerprints. They can be used to identify a person, however using a finger print you could not work out the features of a person like what color hair they have. When a certificate is created, the hash value for that certificate is also created. Using a function involving the private key, a digital signature is created and added to the certificate.
Digital Signature Example
When a certificate is used, in order to check the certificate has not been changed, the following is done: The computer generates the hash value for the certificate. Next, the digital signature is put through a function using the public key which should result in the same hash value. If both values match, the certificate has not been modified. This prevents a 3rd party taking a certificate, changing the values in the certificate and using the certificate.
TrustModel
Certificates work off a trust model. An example of a trust model in computers is that a computer may have a sticker on it indicating which operating systems it will run. The consumer, seeing this sticker, must trust that the manufacture would not put this sticker on the laptop unless it will run that operating system. The customer must also trust the creator of that operating system would not allow a computer manufacturer to put a sticker on a computer that would not run that operating system.
Certificate Trust Model
Certificates are generally deployed in a hierarchy. At the top is the root certificate authority. This can be an internal Certificate Authority or an external authority like VeriSign. When an authority like VeriSign issues a certificate, they will perform a number of checks on the individual purchasing the certificate to ensure that they are a valid business. When a certificate is used it can be checked to see which authority issued that certificate. In order for the certificate to be used, the computer must trust the authority that it was issued from. Authorities like VeriSign are trusted by default on most operating systems.
Certificate Error
If a certificate is presented to the computer and it is not trusted, the computer will generate an error asking if the users want to trust the certificate. It is up to the user to decide if they believe the certificate is valid.
Certificate Hierarchy
Certificates use a hierarchy. At the top is the root CA, below these are subordinate CA's. Any level can issue certificates to subordinate CA's or direct to users, computers or devices. If the user, computer or device trusts the root CA, then any certificate that is issued by any CA in the hierarchy will automatically be trusted and thus used by the client.
References
"MCTS 70-640 Configuring Windows Server 2008Active DirectorySecond edition" pg 771-775
"Public key certificate" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_certificate

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Mailfence.com review 8:20
Disroot.org review 10:42
Protonmail.com review 12:54
Secure and private email service - De-googleify yourself!
End-to-end encryption protects your email messages from being stolen by hackers, read by spies, or used by Google or Microsoft for targeted advertising. Encrypted email is essential for protection of your online privacy, security, and digital rights. Mainstream email providers like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, or Hotmail, don't offer you end-to-end encryption because that would jeopardize their business model.
However, your personal email should be completely private and not read by companies to make a profit off of you. Luckily, there are plenty of gmail/yahoo/hotmail alternatives that keep your messages private and secure from prying eyes of advertisers and governments.
Don't expose your private email messages to hackers, cyber criminals, identity thieves, and governments around the world you can’t trust. Sign up with one of these secure and private email providers for an encrypted email.
All of these private email services offer free basic entry for account creation, end-to-end encryption using asymmetric public key cryptography, public cause and activism, anonymous sign-up.
What is end-to-end encryption, public key cryptography and asymmetric encryption?
Asymmetric encryption is the one where users generate two keys to encrypt their data – a private key, and a public key. When someone wants to contact you securely, they use your public key to encrypt the message. To read the message when you receive it, you decrypt it with your private key. Since public keys are available to everyone, you need to make sure nobody tried to spoof your identity using your public key to impersonate you and communicate with your contacts.
Tutanota.com encrypted email service review
utanota is a free and open source email service based in Germany. The name stems from Latin and translates as “secure message”.
Tutanota user experience feels very nice and smooth. Intuitive, logical, nothing new to learn. This is exactly what a privacy email alternative should look like. The basic option is 1 GB of free space that you can devote to your emails and contacts.
Tutatona offers you a premium version.
It’s possible to send encrypted messages via Tutanota’s application to external accounts. You first set up a contact and enter a password that your recipient needs to know before you send an encrypted message. As soon as you hit send, your contact will receive a notification email with a link that will direct them to a secure application of Tutanota, where they can read and reply to your message confidentially, with end-to-end encryption. This allows you to send encrypted messages to any email account, be it gmail, yahoomail, or Protonmail.
Mailfence.com secure and private email review
This is another end-to-end encryption email service but unlike Tutanota, Mailfence supports OpenPGP so that you can manually exchange encryption keys independent from Mailfence servers.
The website’s interface is also simple and clean-looking.
Basic account will give you 200 MB in messages and additional 500 MB for documents. You can upgrade for 5 and 12 GB plan with unlimited calendars and contacts, or get a pro account with 30 GB in messages and 24 in documents for only a little over 8 bucks a month.
Disroot.org protect your privacy review
Disroot is one of the two services on this list that similarly to mailfence, enables you to use third party mail clients via POP or IMAP to store your messages locally. Disroot is an encrypted email service with SSL and TLS to transfer your messages as “envelope” and not a “postcard”.
Protonmail.com Swiss-based encrypted and secure email review
Swiss based encrypted email service developed by scientists from CERN and MIT, Protonmail offers top security and privacy in their end-to-end encrypted webmail application.
Protonmail offers two-factor-authentification, but you can also create separate mailbox password.
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Applying Java’s Cryptography

Learn how to control Java’s cryptographic features to protect your application and any data that you manage. This session explains what different cryptography features do, what threats are addressed by each feature, and where the configuration takes place. Topics include certificates, code signatures, authenticating dynamic JVM languages, TLS control, perfect forward security, and transparent JPA encryption.
Author:
Erik Costlow
Erik Costlow is a product manager in Oracle's Java PlatformGroup and a regular contributor to the Java Platform Group PM blog. Erik also works closely with industry on Oracle's Java RootCertificateProgram to ensure highest program quality. Previously Erik was employed at HP where he influenced design of the Fortify security analysis suite used by software developers across the world.
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17:54

Cicada 3301: An Internet Mystery

In this video I explore an elaborate cryptographic internet puzzle orchestrated by a myste...

cjdns - The modular isp, the internet of the future ?

Imagine an Internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to destination against espionage and forgery, getting an IP address is as simple as generating a cryptographic key, core routers move data without a single memory look up, and denial of service is a term read about in history books. Finally, becoming an ISP is no longer confined to the mighty telecoms, anyone can do it by running some wires or turning on a wireless device. This is the vision of cjdns. https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/

IT professionals sometimes differentiate between service providers by categorizing them as type I, II, or III.
The three service types are recognized by the IT industry although specifically defined by ITIL and the US Telecommunications Act of 1996

Type I: internal service provider

Type II: shared service provider

Type III: external service provider

Type III SPs provide IT services to external customers and subsequently can be referred to as external service providers (ESPs) which range from a full IT organization/service outsource via managed services or MSPs (managed service providers) to limited product feature delivery via ASPs (application service providers).

Fortanix’s SDKMS leverages Runtime Encryption and Intel® SGX to deliver security for encryption keys and cryptographicservices with software-defined simplicity. The solution offers flexible consumption models; a hardened appliance; and a SaaS service Equinix SmartKey™, powered by Fortanix ... It has been selected by leading partners, including to power Equinix SmartKey™ HSM-as-a-service....

Focused on providing state-of-the-art security for connected objects, the STSAFE-J100 gives the object an unalterable identity that can be authenticated; it also handles encrypted communications and provides secure storage ... To help customers take full advantage of the flexibility of the STSAFE-J100 and ensure uncompromising threat protection, ST provides secure device-personalization service....

Appointment of journalist Alexander Zaitchik to the top job kicks off development roadmap that includes a cryptographic token sale this year ... Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation ServiceProvider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release....

Even though the legal acceptance of cryptocurrencies in India is not crystal clear yet, people with direct knowledge of the issue has stated that India is well on its way to levy Goods and Services Tax (GST) on any activity related to digital assets ... Likewise, startups and entrepreneurs providing their cryptocurrency wallet services shall be charged taxes as well, as they facilitate the transfer of digital assets....

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean?

What is CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER? What does CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER mean? CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER meaning - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER definition - CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE PROVIDER explanation.
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In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.
CSPs are independent modules that can be used by different applications. A user program calls CryptoAPI functions and these are redirected to CSPs functions. Since CSPs are responsible for implementing cryptographic algorithms and standards, applications do not need to be concerned about security details. Furthermore, one application can define which CSP it is going to use on its calls to CryptoAPI. In fact, all cryptographic activity is implemented in CSPs. CryptoAPI only works as a bridge between the application and the CSP.
CSPs are implemented basically as a special type of DLL with special restrictions on loading and use. Every CSP must be digitally signed by Microsoft and the signature is verified when Windows loads the CSP. In addition, after being loaded, Windows periodically re-scans the CSP to detect tampering, either by malicious software such as computer viruses or by the user him/herself trying to circumvent restrictions (for example on cryptographic key length) that might be built into the CSP's code.
To obtain a signature, non-Microsoft CSP developers must supply paperwork to Microsoft promising to obey various legal restrictions and giving valid contact information. As of circa 2000, Microsoft did not charge any fees to supply these signatures. For development and testing purposes, a CSP developer can configure Windows to recognize the developer's own signatures instead of Microsoft's, but this is a somewhat complex and obscure operation unsuitable for nontechnical end users.
The CAPI/CSP architecture had its origins in the era of restrictive US government controls on the export of cryptography. Microsoft's default or "base" CSP then included with Windows was limited to 512-bit RSA public-key cryptography and 40-bit symmetric cryptography, the maximum key lengths permitted in exportable mass market software at the time. CSPs implementing stronger cryptography were available only to U.S. residents, unless the CSPs themselves had received U.S. government export approval. The system of requiring CSPs to be signed only on presentation of completed paperwork was intended to prevent the easy spread of unauthorized CSPs implemented by anonymous or foreign developers. As such, it was presented as a concession made by Microsoft to the government, in order to get export approval for the CAPI itself.
After the Bernstein v. United States court decision establishing computer source code as protected free speech and the transfer of cryptographic regulatory authority from the U.S. StateDepartment to the more pro-export Commerce Department, the restrictions on key lengths were dropped, and the CSPs shipped with Windows now include full-strength cryptography. The main use of third-party CSPs is to interface with external cryptography hardware such as hardware security modules (HSM) or smart cards.

The Cryptographic Service in Windows 7

Provides four management services: Catalog Database Service, which confirms the signatures of Windows files and allows new programs to be installed; ProtectedRoot Service, which adds and removes Trusted Root Certification Authority certificates from the computer; Automatic Root CertificateUpdate Service, which retrieves root certificates from Windows Update and enable scenarios such as SSL; and Key Service, which helps enroll the computer for certificates. If this service is stopped, these management services will not function properly. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

Applying Java’s Cryptography

Learn how to control Java’s cryptographic features to protect your application and any data that you manage. This session explains what different cryptography features do, what threats are addressed by each feature, and where the configuration takes place. Topics include certificates, code signatures, authenticating dynamic JVM languages, TLS control, perfect forward security, and transparent JPA encryption.
Author:
Erik Costlow
Erik Costlow is a product manager in Oracle's Java PlatformGroup and a regular contributor to the Java Platform Group PM blog. Erik also works closely with industry on Oracle's Java RootCertificateProgram to ensure highest program quality. Previously Erik was employed at HP where he influenced design of the Fortify security analysis suite used by software developers across the world.
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50:47

A Retrospective on the Use of Export Cryptography

by David Adrian
TLS has experienced three major vulnerabilities stemming from "export-gra...

A Retrospective on the Use of Export Cryptography

by DavidAdrianTLS has experienced three major vulnerabilities stemming from "export-grade" cryptography in the last year---FREAK, Logajm, and Drown. Although regulations limiting the strength of cryptography that could be exported from the United States were lifted in 1999, and export ciphers were subsequently deprecated in TLS 1.1, Internet-wide scanning showed that support for various forms of export cryptography remained widespread, and that attacks exploiting export-grade cryptography to attack non-export connections affected up to 37% of browser-trusted HTTPS servers in 2015. In this talk, I'll examine the technical details and historical background for all three export-related vulnerabilities, and provide recent vulnerability measurement data gathered from over a year Internet-wide scans, finding that 2% of browser-trusted IPv4 servers remain vulnerable to FREAK, 1% to Logjam, and 16% to Drown. I'll examine why these vulnerabilities happened, how the inclusion of weakened cryptography in a protocol impacts security, and how to better design and implement cryptographic protocols in the future. Having been involved in the discovery of all three export vulnerabilities, I'll distill some lessons learned from measuring and analyzing export cryptography into recommendations for technologists and policymakers alike, and provide a historical context for the current "going dark'' and Apple vs. FBI debate.

1:26:40

Introduction to Security APIs - Graham Steel

Introduction to Security APIs, by Graham Steel
A security API is an Application Program I...

Introduction to Security APIs - Graham Steel

Introduction to SecurityAPIs, by GrahamSteel
A security API is an Application Program Interface that allows untrusted code to access sensitive resources in a secure way. It is the interface between processes running with different levels of trust. Examples of security APIs include the interface between the tamper-resistant chip on a smartcard (trusted) and the code running on the client application (untrusted), the interface between a cryptographic Hardware Security Module (or HSM, trusted) and the host machine (untrusted), and web service APIs (an interface between a server, trusted by the service provider, and the rest of the Internet).
In this lecture, we will introduce security APIs with plenty of examples of attacks from real world applications ranging from authentication tokens to electricity meters to PIN processing in cash machine networks. We will introduce analysis techniques for such APIs that facilitate detection of flaws and ultimately the design of a secure API.
Learning Objectives
This talk covers
+ what a security API is and what it's for
+ real world examples of vulnerabilities
+ methodologies for secure API design
It was delivered by Graham Steel at SecAppDev 2013.
Graham Steel holds a masters in mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in informatics from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently a researcher at INRIA, the French national agency for computer science research, where he is part of the Prosecco project team based in central Paris.
Steel's main research interests are in formal analysis of information security and applied cryptography. His current work on cryptographic API verification involves using formal techniques to construct and analyse abstract models of cryptographic device interfaces. In addition to international conference and journal publications, his recent results have featured in Wired magazine and the New York Times.
He has taught courses on security APIs at Tsinghua University (Beijing) and the University of Venice (Italy) as well as organising a Dagstuhl seminar on the subject.

21:31

cjdns - The modular isp, the internet of the future ?

Imagine an Internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to desti...

cjdns - The modular isp, the internet of the future ?

Imagine an Internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to destination against espionage and forgery, getting an IP address is as simple as generating a cryptographic key, core routers move data without a single memory look up, and denial of service is a term read about in history books. Finally, becoming an ISP is no longer confined to the mighty telecoms, anyone can do it by running some wires or turning on a wireless device. This is the vision of cjdns. https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/

23:27

Solve 3 Major Mobile Device Security Challenges with PKI | Webinar

How can you enable your mobile workforce whilst also keeping your business network and dat...

Solve 3 Major Mobile Device Security Challenges with PKI | Webinar

How can you enable your mobile workforce whilst also keeping your business network and data secure? Find out in this on-demand webinar. https://goo.gl/yVCOF3
Navigate the webinar below:
1:35 Enabling a mobile workforce
3:09 Common challenges and how PKI can help solve them.
3:31 You can't rely on passwords alone for authentication
6:55 EmailSecurity on mobile devices when accessing work emails
11:04 How can you make sure only approved devices are accessing your networks?
13:43 Deploying mobile PKI
14:46 Deploying certificates at high volume
15:45 Leveraging a CA and Mobile Device ManagementIntegration
16:38 PKI as a solution for Mobile Security
17:56 Q- Do your certificates work with Pulse Secure?
18:40 Q- Do you integrate with any other MDMs?
19:26 Q- Can you have multiple certificates on each device?
20:13 Q- Can you put certificates on employee owned devices?
21:23 Q- For employees no longer with the company, especially BYOD devices, does revoking require having access to the mobile device?
22:32 Q- DoesAndroid support S/MIME capabilities?
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42:21

Why CloudHSM can Revolutionzie AWS -Todd Cignetti, Oleg Gryb

Developer Track
When it comes to a cloud, a traditional mindset of many IT leaders and sec...

Why CloudHSM can Revolutionzie AWS -Todd Cignetti, Oleg Gryb

DeveloperTrack
When it comes to a cloud, a traditional mindset of many IT leaders and security analysts who are dealing with highly sensitive data can be shortly formulated as "we do not trust them".
The reason of that is not so much in insufficient security controls implemented by cloud providers, as in uncertainty, lack of knowledge and control by cloud consumers over security policies and processes implemented by the providers as well as the providers' reluctance to accept any legal liabilities or commit to SLA's for customer's cloud deployments.
The first obvious suggestion to make the risk manageable is to encrypt everything in transition and at rest with cryptographic keys that are not accessible by "them".
Implementation might be challenging though, because it's not clear how to make the keys inaccessible by "them". Using CloudHSM solution looks like a good choice since by design cloud provider's employees do not have access to the content of partitions created by customers.
Lack of automation and manual HSM setup process are other challenges that need to be resolved for making the appliances compliant with a cloud automation principle. HSM setup automation tools have been created and are described in the scope of this presentation.
Yet another challenge to make Cloud HSM working in a secure manner is related to passing HSM credentials (partition level pins, private certificate) from an internal data center to a cloud that can be done through a credential-less EC2 instance validation process that is covered by this talk as well.

46:02

How Secure are Secure BGP Protocols

Speakers:
Sharon Goldberg, Microsoft Research & Boston University.
A decade of research h...

How Secure are Secure BGP Protocols

Speakers:
SharonGoldberg, Microsoft Research & Boston University.
A decade of research has been devoted to addressing vulnerabilities in BGP. The result is a plethora of BGP security proposals, each providing different types of security guarantees. To inform decisions about which of these protocols should be deployed in the Internet, we *quantify* and *compare* the ability of these protocols to blunt BGP "traffic attraction" attacks, namely, when an attacker manipulates BGP messages to blackhole traffic (e.g. prefix hijacks a la AS7007, Pakistan Telecom/YouTube), or intercept traffic (e.g. BGP man-in-the-middle attacks a la Pilosov & Kapela). We run simulations of traffic flow on maps of the Internet’s AS-level topology to determine and compare the impact of attacks on different BGP security protocols. The key implication of our work is that route filtering can be as effective as cryptographic routing protocols like Secure BGP (S-BGP) and secure origin BGP (soBGP).
See more at: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog49/agenda

Nucypher KMS Audio White Paper

Nucypher KMSAudioWhite Paper NuCypher KMS: Decentralized key management system Michael Egorov∗ and MacLane Wilkison† NuCypher David Nuñez‡ NICS Lab, Universidad de Málaga, Spain (Dated: December 21, 2017) NuCypher KMS is a decentralized KeyManagementSystem (KMS) that addresses the limitations of using consensus networks to securely store and manipulate private, encrypted data [1]. It provides encryption and cryptographic access control, performed by a decentralized network, leveraging proxy re-encryption [2]. Unlike centralized KMS as a service solutions, it doesn’t require trusting a service provider. NuCypher KMS enables sharing of sensitive data for both decentralized and centralized applications, providing security infrastructure for applications from healthcare to identity management to decentralized content marketplaces. NuCypher KMS will be an essential part of decentralized applications, just as SSL/TLS is an essential part of every secure web application
http://audiowhitepaper.io/nucypher-kms-audio-white-paper/

58:39

Data Security Essentials

Data is central to computing, and data security remains the biggest concern of application...

Data Security Essentials

Data is central to computing, and data security remains the biggest concern of application customers. Data needs to be handled securely at all stages, from transmission to computation and persistence. This presentation bootstraps you with the basics of applied cryptography, a choice of relevant algorithms, and the various secure data transport and storage options. It illustrates the trade-offs between cryptographic strength, performance, and storage size. It also covers the application of specialized hardware cryptographic processors for scenarios involving the most-stringent data security.
Authors:
Manish Maheshwari
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Anirban Mukherjee
Anirban Mukherjee is a Software Architect at Verisign and has over 15 years of industry experience designing and building large-scale applications. Over the years, he has acquired expertise in distributed systems, SaaS, text search, database systems and internet security, and has been involved in building and maintaining leading software products and platforms at Verisign, SuccessFactors, Oracle and IBM. He has a BTech, ECE from IIT Kharagpur and an MS, CS from UMass, Amherst. He has done regular presentations and technical talks at various events including JavaOne, Verisign Technical Symposium and Oracle Open World.
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38:24

DEF CON 24 - Crypto and Privacy Village - David Wong - How to Backdoor Diffie-Hellman

Lately, several backdoors in cryptographic constructions, protocols and implementations ha...

DEF CON 24 - Crypto and Privacy Village - David Wong - How to Backdoor Diffie-Hellman

Lately, several backdoors in cryptographic constructions, protocols and implementations have been surfacing in the wild: Dual-EC in RSA's B-Safe product, a modified Dual-EC in Juniper's operating system ScreenOS and a non-prime modulus in the open-source tool socat. Many papers have already discussed the fragility of cryptographic constructions not using nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers, as well as how such numbers can be safely picked. However, the question of how to introduce a backdoor in an already secure, safe and easy to audit implementation has so far rarely been researched (in the public).
BIO: David Wong (Twitter: @lyon01_david) is a Security Consultant at the Cryptography Services team of NCCGroup. He has been working in Security for over a year now, being part of several publicly funded open source audits such as the OpenSSL and the Let's Encrypt ones. He has conducted research in many domains in cryptography, publishing whitepapers as well as writing numerous editions of the Cryptography Services private bulletin. He has been a trainer for cryptography courses at BlackHat US 2015 and BlackHat US 2016.

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